Sounds of the World's Animals.

Ever wonder how the dog sounds in French and Croatian?

Well, this list of onomatopoeias lists animal sounds in several languages. Some have even sound files attached. Catherine N. Ball, Proffesor of Linguistics in Georgetown University made this complete compilation.

For Example: The Cat
Afrikaans: miaau
Albanian: mjau
Arabic (Algeria): miaou miaou
Bengali: meu-meu
Catalan: meu, meu
Chinese (Mandarin): miao miao
Croatian: mijau
Danish: mjav
Dutch: miauw
English: meow
Esperanto: miaw
Estonian: näu
Finnish: miau, kurnau
French: miaou
German: miau
Greek: niaou
Hebrew: miyau
Hindi: mya:u, mya:u:
Hungarian: miau
Icelandic: mjá
Indonesian: ngeong
Italian: miao
Japanese: nyaa
Korean: (n)ya-ong
Norwegian: mjau
Polish: miau
Portuguese: miau
Russian: myau
Slovene: mijau
Spanish (Spain, Argentina): miau
Swedish: mjau
Thai: meow meow (with high tone)
Turkish: miyauv, miyauv
Ukrainian: myau
Vietnamese: meo-meo

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Hi to all!
Is there a way to have the Palm T/X (or maybe for winXP) repeat an Event in the calendar every year on Easter Sunday?
I don't want input the dates manually
2008 - 23 March
2009 - 12 April
2010 - 4 April
2011 - 24 April
2012 - 8 April
2013 - 31 March
2014 - 20 April
2015 - 5 April
2016 - 27 March
2017 - 16 April
2018 - 1 April
2019 - 21 April
2020 - 12 April
Thanks!
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