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Thread #101982 Message #2063598
Posted By: Jack Campin
29-May-07 - 07:52 PM
Thread Name: BS: Tongue twisters!
Subject: RE: BS: Tongue twisters!
A few posted by George Aaron Broadwell to sci.lang back in 1991:
A Zapotec tongue twister (dialect of Mitla):
Tsu'un buin zu^n kayu'n dzu`n kato'p bidzui`n.
'Thirteen men from Tlacochahuaya work with honey.'
Two Choctaw tongue twisters:
Chinchilla chikchiki chi_chokcolilaachi_h.
'I'm going to tickle your speckled chinchilla.'
Sho_shi showa showaka_ ishashshowaho_?
'Do you smell the stink bug stinking?'
[Phonetics: underline after a vowel means it's nasal. ^ is falling tone,
`is low tone, ' is high tone, is a high central vowel.]