The tale was translated in the works of Leonard Magnus[2] and Verra Xenophontovna Kalamatiano de Blumenthal.

[3] French Slavicist Louis Léger translated the tale as Le Language des Oiseaux.

[5] A similar tale is attached as a legend to Eilean Donan Castle in Scotland, in which a lord gave his son the power to speak with birds by making his first sip be from a raven's skull.

There is a Portuguese tale collected by Francisco Adolfo Coelho, "The Little Boy and the Moon," that unfolds in a fashion largely analogous to "The Language of the Birds": A boy tells his father that the moon has told him how one day when his father offers him water to wash his hands, he will "shrink back and refuse to be served."

Eventually the boy in the course of his travels comes to an inn managed by his father and unwittingly fulfills the prophecy.