While
chocobos traditionally make the
sound "
Wark", like in
Final Fantasy V and
Final Fantasy VII, the translators at
Square evidently decided it was time for a change in
Final Fantasy IX. In FFIX, they say
kweh, and they say it a lot, including such variations as
kweeeeh!,
kwehh?! or
KWEEEEEEEHHHHH!!!!
I supposed it's just different languages with different ways of making onomatiopoeia. English speakers will tell you that a pig says oink oink, but in French it says groin groin, a fact never ceases to amuse high school French classes.
In any event, maybe Square decided to translate it using the Japanese phoenetic pronunciation, or maybe they decided that chocobos really DO make a kweh sound instead of wark. Another one of those unsolved mysteries of Final Fantasy.
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