I mentioned as part of supersecret spy training that I learned to meow in 14 different languages.  You would think they all sound the same, but each language has different rhythms, tonal variations, or can be soft, hard or guttural, to name a few differences. French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, and Italian all sound like mee-ow.  Russian was more difficult -spelled Мяу! (M’yau!)  and pronounced “m-yow”. Greek was also hard to pronounce properly, it is spelled Μιάου! (Miáou!) and sounds like mee-ah-oo. Norwegian and Swedish sounds similar – my-ow but when it came to Icelandic, I had to switch to myah.  Then there were the languages I had more trouble with.  Cherokee was the hardest (Gihiya!) spoken gee-hee-yah, Zulu: Ngiyavuma! said asng-ee-yah-voo-ma and Hungarian spelled Nyávog and pronounced nyah-vohg. Even though I don’t use the different meows daily, it is fun to speak with cats in their native language.  Purrs, Gulliver