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• zod000@lemmy.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’ve definitely heard some sort of frog/toad make the “ribbit” sound, but I’d say the German “kwaak” is probably more common. The various Asian sounds seem odd to me though. I suppose it is entirely possible the frogs makes different sounds there.

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  • zurohki@aussie.zone ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    IIRC different species of frogs make wildly different sounds, so all of the languages might just be what type of frog lives in that country.

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• Supervisor194@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hot take, English got it wrong. I’ve never heard a frog make a sound like “ribbit”.

  It’s a real thing. Super common in the Southern US when I was a kid.

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  • jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, that’s the kind of frog sound I’ve always known to be most prominent. I was also wondering just how much the most common species in a region affects the onomatopoeia, along with the language used.

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• SassyRamen@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Have you ever set by a creek on a warm summer night? It’s more like riib riib riib riib, but I can see where ribbit came from

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  • SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    When I was young and lived in the country with a big pond and marshland, most of the frogs went “THUMMM” at night (like this m.youtube.com/watch?v=6qHBRXLHXnc) and the others were more like a high pitch creaky door or one of those hollow wooden frogs with the back ridges that you play with a stick, like this m.youtube.com/watch?v=p-XPYXuCOjg

    I’ve never lived near any sort of frogs that I’d describe as making a riib sound

    I think this is the sound you are talking about? It’s kinda harder to pick out, but there’s a distinct riib sound there that’s absent from the other video. m.youtube.com/watch?v=8fJWGKbXw4Y

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    • SassyRamen@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yep, that’s a far better example of what I menat.

      Where I grew up if it made a deeper noise it was a bull frog. Normally a Ruuuurp like call.

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• BrotherL0v3@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Counterpoint: “Kwaak” is the sound a duck makes, so frogs gotta say something else.

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