Learn to Speak Like a Rooster

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