History Main / AnimalSpeciesAccent

* On ''Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood'', Henrietta Pussycat spoke with a frequent "meow meow meow" in the middle of sentences, often after a verb.

* In the English dub of Creator/{{Sanrio}}'s film adaptation of ''Anime/RingingBell'', [[SweetSheep Chirin the Lamb]] (voiced by Creator/BarbaraGoodson) is occasionally heard talking with a bleating pattern.

* The sheep from the 1995 film ''Film/Babe'' and it's sequel, all speak in a manner that sounds like actual sheep bleats. Notably when they recite the special "Sheep Code" "Baa Ram Ewe" to Fly.

* In the English dub of Creator/{{Sanrio}}'s film adaptation of ''Anime/RingingBell'',[[SweetSheep Chirin the Lamb]] (voiced by Creator/BarbaraGoodson) is occasionally heard talking with a bleating pattern.

* In the English dub of ''Anime/RingingBell'', Chirin the Lamb (voiced by Creator/BarbaraGoodson) is occasionally heard talking with a bleating pattern.

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* Pumbaa the warthog in ''Franchise/TheLionKing'' has a raspy voice that resembles porcine grunting and squealing.

* In the Literature/RealRPG novel Literature/MindGames, Danielle, when in her Magical Catgirl form, ends random sentences with "nya" and uses cat puns like "I'm purr-fectly aware.'' Made more hilarious by the fact that [[spoiler:she does not know she's doing this, the System does it.]]

** Even Mickey's iconic falsetto, when you think about it, was inspired by the fact that he's a mouse.

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This often involves a VerbalTic or accent based on an onomatopoeia of how they speak. For the VerbalTic examples, a cat character saying "meow" (or whatever the language's version is) often. For the accent examples, sheep and goats will have their "ba-a-a-a" noise as their species accent, dogs have their "ruff" or "woof" sound as their species accent, the owls' accent consists of the "hoooos" they make, and snakes have [[SssnakeTalk a whole trope]] in how they overdo the "sssss" sound.

* In his [[SleepModeSize cat form]], [[NonHumanSidekick Nyanko]]-[[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass sensei]] in ''Manga/NatsumeYuujinchou'' peppers his speech with "nya"s. Averted with his [[CanisMajor true form]].

* In his [[SleepModeSize cat form]], [[NonHumanSidekick Nyanko]]-[[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass sensei] in ''Manga/NatsumeYuujinchou'' peppers his speech with "nya"s. Averted with his [[CanisMajor true form]].

* The mice in ''Disney/{{Cinderella}}'' have high-pitched mouse voices.
* ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}'': Iago the macaw has a grating parrot sound to his voice due to being voiced by Creator/GilbertGottfried.

* The animated farm animals in the "It's a Jolly Holiday," scene in ''Film/MaryPoppins'' have their distinct species accents. For example, the horse's voice sounds like a whinny, the cow's voice sounds like a moo, the lambs' and ram's voice sounds like a bleet, and the pig's voice sounds like an oink.

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': In the Japanese version Nyarth has a VerbalTic of "nya" and a "cat sounding" voice. The English dub originally had Meowth say "Meowth" often as a counterpart, but [[AbandonedCatchphrase they ultimately abandoned the tic]].

* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': In the Japanese version Nyarth has a VerbalTic of "nya" and a "cat sounding" voice. The English dub originally had Meowth say "meow" and "Meowth" often as a counterpart, but [[AbandonedCatchphrase they ultimately abandoned the tic]].

* Parrots have cartoonish squawking voices when they speak in human languages.
* Ravens have cartoonish falsetto voices when they speak in human languages.