Here’s how to call a dog in most popular Indian languages

It always helps to learn a few languages in a multilingual society as diverse as India. One can never be sure which person you would bump into at a given point and what tongue s/he would speak, in this country.

The case of dog lovers gets even more curious in the absence of a lingua franca when they have to interact with another pet parent well-versed in a different language. So, we at TailsLife thought of putting together the vernacular words meaning ‘dog’ in the most spoken Indian languages. You may consider it as the first step in your quest to master other native tongues.

Here goes:

Bengali – Kukura

Gujarati – Ḍōga

Hindi – Kutta

Kannada – Nāyi

Malayalam – Nāya

Marathi – Kutrā

Odia – Kukura

Punjabi – Kutā

Tamil – Nāy

Telugu – Kukka

Now you know what to say after you exchange pleasantries with that pet-friendly person.