Parents of small children the world over, students, and those who work from home will probably have heard of Pingu. But you should if you’re interested in language neutral products. 

Pingu is a Swiss animated children’s TV program about a a family of penguins who live in an Igloo at the South Pole (OK, so they’re not too good on geographic habitation patterns). It features a brilliant dialogue that requires no localization at all. For years I thought it was Swedish. But no, it’s Pinguish or Penguinese, described by Wikipedia as:

A honking “penguin language” … performed (without script) by Carlo Bonomi.

Listen to it and you’ll appreciate how this globally acceptable animal language does away with the need for localization…

I wonder how the localization of “The Simpsons Movie” will fare…