Dog barks around the world:

• English: woof, woof
• Albanian: ham, ham
• Arabic: haw, haw
• Bulgarian: bau, bau
• Danish: vov, vov
• Estonian: auh, auh
• Farsi: vogh, vogh
• Finnish: hau, hau
• French: ouaf, ouaf
• German: wau, wau
• Greek: gav, gav
• Hindi: bho, bho
• Icelandic: voff, voff
• Italian: bau, bau
• Japanese: wan, wan
• Korean: mung, mung
• Latvian: vau, vau
• Mandarin Chinese: wang, wang
• Norwegian: voff, voff
• Polish: hau, hau
• Romanian: ham, ham
• Russian: gav, gav
• Spanish: guau, guau
• Swedish: voff, voff
• Thai: hoang, hoang

Robert Benchley wrote, “A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.”