Quote Originally Posted by Ozme52 View Post
a lot of animal sounds are examples of onomatopoiea.

oink, quack, cluck.

Cock-a-doodle-doo in English
I read somewhere just recently that the reason for this is largely because children (infants) first learn to speak through imitating animal sounds. This is evident in nursery rhymes, such as 'Baa Baa Black Sheep'.

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