What sound does a turkey make?
A turkey says “gobble”. That is the spelling. This is the recording.
Hear a real turkey
The actual recording from Soundly
Why “gobble” is not the whole answer
“Gobble” is how English writes it down, and every language writes it differently — which tells you the spelling is about the language, not about the turkey.
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 turkeys rather than to one picture of one turkey. That is why Soundly holds five photographs and five recordings behind every one of its 72 subjects.
Turkey in 19 languages
- Englishturkey
- NorskKalkun
- SvenskaKalkon
- DanskKalkun
- SuomiKalkkuna
- DeutschTruthahn
- NederlandsKalkoen
- FrançaisDinde
- EspañolPavo
- PortuguêsPeru
- ItalianoTacchino
- PolskiIndyk
- РусскийИндюк
- TürkçeHindi
- 中文火鸡
- 日本語しちめんちょう
- 한국어칠면조
- IndonesiaKalkun
- Tiếng ViệtGà tây