Tongue Twisters

[joyeuse13]

Hi, all,

I'm trying to find out what tongue twisters are called in languages other than English. I have plenty of sources for foreign language tongue twisters, but not what the term is! Can anyone help out? (And provide pronunciation if it's anything but German, French, Spanish, or Italian--those i can figure out on my own.) Thanks!

Comments

[redphoenix36]

'a tongue twister' in spanish is 'un trabalenguas'

[joyeuse13]

Muchas gracias! :)

[poubelle]

Japanese: 早口言葉 (hayakuchi kotoba), lit "fast mouth words"

Mandarin Chinese: 绕口令 (ràokǒulìng), lit "words that leave your mouth in wound up" (or something like that ;)

Cantonese Chinese: 绕口令 (jiu5 hau2 ling6), also 急口令 (gap1 hau2 ling6)

[joyeuse13]

Thank you!

[ember_cyprus]

Russian - скороговорка (skorogovόrka) which literally means "spoken fast"
German - Zungenbrecher (tongue-breaker)

[joyeuse13]

Vielen Dank!

[youffie_17]

In Italian it should be “scioglilingua”.

[joyeuse13]

Grazie!

[graeco_celt]

Catalan - embarbussallengües (embarboosalyengwəs)

[joyeuse13]

Thank you!