| Cantonese Chinese: "Wo! Wo!" (Incidentally, the term little children use to describe dogs. Courtesy of melodrame)
Catalan: "bup bup!" (Courtesy of koala)
Czech: "haf haf!" (Courtesy of nYxxie)
Dutch: "waf waf!" or "woef woef." (The 'waf waf' is for smaller dogs that make a somewhat higher pitched bark, 'woef' is for big dogs. Very small dogs do a 'kef kef'. Courtesy of archie2)
English: "woof," "arf," "bow wow", "yip yip / yap yap" for small rat-dogs too.
Estonian: "Auh-auh" (Courtesy of upthorn and "A Guide to Barking Abroad" from his copy of The Best of the Journal of Irreproducable Results. montecarlo says: I'd spell the Estonian entry as "Auhh, auhh", because the "h" is not silent, but pronounced hard, like German "ch" in "Achtung".)
Finnish: "hau hau!" or "vuh vuh!" (Courtesy of Jope and break)
French (from Astérix books. i.e., à la Idéfix - you know him as Dogmatix): "Wouaff! Wouaff!" or "ouah-ouah" (Courtesy of melodrame)
German: "Wau-Wau" (pronounced like "vow") or "Wuff-Wuff". (Courtesy of -brazil- and izubachi.)
Hebrew: The canines of Cana'an supposedly go "hav hav!" , but I can't think of ever hearing a dog emit anything remotely like this. (Courtesy of ariels and undone.)
Japanese: "wan-wan"
Mandarin (Han) Chinese: "wang wang!" (note: the ang is pronounced as an "ah" with an "ng", not like "bang" or "fang". Thanks to blaaf for that one.)
Korean: "mong mong!"(Courtesy of Dystopian Autocrat)
Lebanese: "Haw-haw" (Courtesy of upthorn)
Nigeria - Calabar area: "wai-wai" (Courtesy of upthorn)
Norwegian: "voff voff" (Courtesy of Sverre)
Polish: "how, how" (Courtesy of liontamer)
Portuguese: "au au" (Courtesy of e-anorexia.)
Russian: "gav gav!" (Courtesy of TheLady)
Spanish: "gau gau"(Courtesy of koala)
Spanish (El Salvador): "Guau-Guau" (Courtesy of upthorn")
Spanish (Peru): "gua-gua-gua" (Courtesy of upthorn)
Swedish: "vov vov" (Courtesy of h_e)
Tamil: "Bou-Bou" (rhymes with How How) (Courtesy of rep_movsd)
Thai: "hong-hong" (Courtesy of upthorn)
Ukranian: "Breshe" (Courtesy of upthorn)
Vietnamese: "Gau gau" (Courtesy of upthorn)
Yoruba (Nigeria): "gbogbo" (Courtesy of upthorn) please /msg p_i with further contributions to this (or other aspects to noises animals make in different languages), assuredly the best use yet found for the global forum that is the Internet.
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