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• Albanian - hunk
• Croatian - rok
• Czech - chro
• Danish - øf
• Estonian - rui
• Finnish - röh
• French - groin
• German - grunz
• Hungarian - röf
• Japanese - buu
• Korean - kkool
• Mandarin Chinese - hulu
• Norwegian - nøff
• Polish - chrum
• RussianRussian /'ruski j'zk/) is the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages. Russian belongs to the group of Indo-European languages, and is therefore related to Sanskrit, Greek, and Latin, as well as the modern Germanic, Romance, and Celtic languages, inclu - khryu
• SwedishSwedish svenska is a language spoken principally in Sweden, Finland finlandsvenska , Aland and in the coastland of Estonia estlandssvenska . Swedish is classified as a member of the East section of the Scandinavian languages, a sub-group of the Germanic g - nöff
• ThaiThe Thai language is the official language of Thailand. The Thai name for the language is phasa thai meaning "the language of Thais"). Thai is part of the Tai languages group of the Tai-Kadai language family. The Tai-Kadai languages are thought to have or - ood
• WelshWelsh redirects here, and this article describes the Welsh language. For other meanings, see Wales (disambiguation). Welsh Cymraeg y Gymraeg , not to be confused with the Welsh dialect of English, is a Brythonic branch of Celtic spoken natively in the wes - soch

Note the similarities between the renderings in neighbouring countries, such as röh, rui and röf in FinlandSuomen TasavaltaRepubliken Finland ( In Detail) ( In Detail) National motto: None Official languages Finnish and Swedish Capital Helsinki President Tarja Halonen Prime minister Matti Vanhanen Area Total % water Ranked 64th 337,030 km² 9. 4% Population Tot, EstoniaThe Republic of Estonia is a country in Northern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the north, and sharing a land border with its fellow Baltic state Latvia to the south and with Russia to the east. Eesti Vabariik ( In and HungaryThe Republic of Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe, bordered by Austria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia. It is known locally as the Country of the Magyars or Magyarorszag''. Magyar Koztarsasag ( In Detail) ( Full s respectively, or chrum and khryu in PolandThe Republic of Poland a country in Central Europe, lies between Germany to the west, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south, Ukraine and Belarus to the east, and the Baltic Sea, Lithuania and Russia (in the form of the Kaliningrad Oblast exclave) t and Russia. This reflects shared linguistic heritages – Finno-Ugric and Slavic respectively, for the examples quoted above – and suggests an old origin for many of the renderings. However, the English word "oink" is fairly recent, apparently dating only from the 1940s. Spanish uses much the same representation as English, rendering it as "¡oink!". This may be a borrowing from English.

During the 1980s, OINK was also used as an acronym for a person with "one income and no kids", characterising one type of yuppie worker.

Oink! was also the title of a British comic for children which was published from 3 May 1986- 22 October 1988. It set out to be deliberately anarchic, being "run" by a character called Uncle Pigg (compare 2000 AD's Tharg the Mighty). It proved somewhat controversial, with various conservative groups branding it offensive and unsuitable for children and succeeding in having it pulled from newsagents' shelves on several occasions. It was finally wound up after 68 issues, merging with Buster, after being sold to the newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell.