Meow the 50th – #cat

Hashtags are very important not just for sharing photos on instragram or tweets on twitter. Hashtags are also a treasure from a linguistic point of view:innovations, word formations, and semantic wordfields. And lots are cat related.

#cat

Here is a collection of instagram hashtags. The list is by no means complete. The hashtags are categorised by language. In case of English, there are subcategories.

English:

general: #cat, #cats, #catsofinstragram, #catstagram, #happycat, #instacat, #catsagram, #catoftheday, #caturday, #lazycat, #catnap, #fatcat, #catselfie

#kitten, #kittens, #kitty, #kittenofinstagram, #kittylove, #cutekitty, #instakitty, #kittycat, #prettykitty, #kittygram, #softkitty, #sillykitty

people: #catlover, #catlovers, #catlady, #crazycatlady

cat-specific: #blackcat, #blackcats, #blackcatsofinstagram, #blackcatsrule, #tabbycat, #gingercat, #siamesecat, #calicocat, …

sounds: #meow, #meows, #meowsie

German:

#katze, #katzen, #mieze, #katzenliebe, #babykatze, #katzenbabys, #schmusekatze, #instakatze, #katzenaufinstagram, #katzenselfie, #miau

Italian:

#gatto, #gatti, #instagatto, #gattogram, #gattonero

Russian:

#кот (kot), #кошка (koshka), #котэ (kotay), #котик (kotik), #котята (kotyata), #котейки (koteyki), #котенок (kotyonok)

Still to come: Spanish, Greek, Japanese, French

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