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Why do pigs oink?

But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids

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Language in the World

Linguists are looking at language in the world and how people use it. I asked arica why we give different words to animal sounds in the first place. After all, a dog doesn't really go rough roof or gow, gow. And a pig doesn't go ink, ink. It makes a sound like so why don't we just make those sounds? Why do we instead give them words like rough, ruff or oinklink? We are giving a name for the sound, which is a difficult concept because we have words for things out there in the world.

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