What sound does a horse make?
A horse says “neigh”. That is the spelling. This is the recording.
Hear a real horse
The actual recording from Soundly
Why “neigh” is not the whole answer
“Neigh” is how English writes it down, and every language writes it differently — which tells you the spelling is about the language, not about the horse.
A small child learning the word does not need the spelling. They need the sound and the thing together, more than once, and looking slightly different each time — so that the word attaches to horses rather than to one picture of one horse. That is why Soundly holds five photographs and five recordings behind every one of its 72 subjects.
Horse in 19 languages
- Englishhorse
- NorskHest
- SvenskaHäst
- DanskHest
- SuomiHevonen
- DeutschPferd
- NederlandsPaard
- FrançaisCheval
- EspañolCaballo
- PortuguêsCavalo
- ItalianoCavallo
- PolskiKoń
- РусскийЛошадь
- TürkçeAt
- 中文马
- 日本語うま
- 한국어말
- IndonesiaKuda
- Tiếng ViệtNgựa