If you listen carefully, you can't help but notice that a rooster doesn't actually say "Cock-a-doodle-doo" at all. All the countries of the world have attempted to write down the wonderful call of the rooster. We've gathered together 60 of them so that you can judge - which comes closest to capturing the sound?

Rooster crowing - but what's he saying, exactly?
- Africaans koekelekoe
- Albanian kikiriki
- Arabic kookookoo-koo
- Basque kikirriki
- Belarusian кукарэку, kukarekú
- Bosnian kukuriku
- Breton kokaralur
- Bulgarian кукуригу, kukurigu
- Catalan co-co-ro-co
- Chinese Cantonese goh-geh-goh-goh
- Chinese Mandarin gou-gou
- Croatian ku-ku-ri-ku
- Czech kykyrikí
- Danish kykeliky
- Dutch kukeleku
- Esperanto kokeriko
- Estonian kukeleegu, kikerikii
- Faroese kakkulárakó
- Filipino tik-ti-la-ok
- Finnish kukkokiekuu
- French cocorico
- Gaelic Irish cuc-a-dudal-du
- Gaelic Scots gog-a-ghuidhe-ghaoidhe
- Georgian yiyliyo (khi-khli-kho)
- German kikeriki
- Greek κικιρίκου, κουκουρίκου (kikiriku)
- Gujarati kuk-de-kuk
- Hebrew ku-ku-ri-ku
- Hindi kuk-roo-koo, kuk-roo-kroon
- Hungarian kukurikú
- Icelandic gaggala gaggala gú
- Indonesian kukuruyuk
- Italian chicchirichì
- Japanese ko-ke kokkoh
- Kashubian kùkùk
- Korean k'ok'iyo
- Latvian ki-ke-ri-gū
- Lithuanian ka-ka-rie-ku
- Macedonian кукурику (kukurikú)
- Norwegian kykkeliky
- Persian ququliqu
- Polish kukuryku
- Portuguese có có ró có
- Punjabi kukroku, kukrukaru
- Romanian cucurigu
- Russian ку-ка-ре-ку (ku-ka-rye-ku)
- Sanskrit काक (kāka)
- Serbian ku-ku-ri-ku
- Slovak kikirikí
- Slovene kikiriki
- Spanish qui-qui-ri-qui'
- Swahili koko-rikoo-koo
- Swedish kuckeliku
- Tagalog kukaok
- Tamil ko-ka-ra-ko
- Thai yeki-yeki-yek
- Turkish üü-ürü-üüü
- Ukrainian кукуріку (kukurikú)
- Urdu kuk-roo-kroon
- Vietnamese ò-ó-o-o