what sound does a turkey make in Russian?

[Elena Gapova]

I definitely know that индюки лопочут. Something like блы-блы-блы or
bla-bla-bla...
e.g.

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Subject: [SEELANGS] what sound does a turkey make in Russian?


Colleagues,

A student asked me what sound turkeys make in Russian. I replied that, since
_Meleagris_ is a New-World genus, I doubted that they made any noise
whatsoever in Russian. This seemed not to satisfy them. 

 

Does anyone know?

 

mad

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