Kikuyu Tongue Twisters
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Original:
Ninguria githeri
Ndiriaga githeri
English:
I want to eat githeri (maize and beans). I don’t eat githeri (maize and beans).
Original:
Kana ka Nikora kona kora kora,
nako kora kona kana ka Nikora kora.
English:
Nicholas' child saw a little frog hide, when the little frog saw Nicholas' child hide, the little frog hid.
Original:
Cucu ciana ciothe cia cukuru cianyua cai cianina.
English:
Grandmother, all children from school drank tea and finished.
Original:
Kana kona kora kora nako kora kona kana kora.
English:
A child saw a frog and ran and a frog saw a child and ran.
Original:
Niu kuria Kuria kana nia kuria kuria.
English:
Will you ask Kuria (male name) if he will eat over there.
Original:
Dathie donyo daria duma dugu dakena dainoka!
English:
I went to the store and saw a huge potato, went home and was happy.
Original:
Nyenje yathire kwenja nyenje, igikora nyenje ni nyenje ni nyenje nyenje.
English:
A cockroach went to shave a cockroach and found it had already been shaved by a shaved roach.)
Original:
Ndatiga ndahirigahiriga haha ii, niwa hirigahirigura?
English:
I just fenced (made a fence) here who undid the fence?
Original:
Ndahîrîgahîrîgire haha-î, nûû wahîrîgahîrîgûrire
English:
I just had made a fence here who has undone the fence?
Original:
Cucu ciara ciana ciaku ciothe ciathie cira ciuge ciari ciaku ciothe.
English:
Please, grandmother, give birth to your children so that when taken to court they will all say they are yours.
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Original:
Cucu ciere cian ciaku ciothe ciathie cira ciorio ciuge ciea ciothe ciari ciaku.
English:
Grandmother, tell all your children that when they go to the courtroom and they are asked they should say that all the pieces of land were yours.
Original:
Kana koona kora koora kera kana kao koore, kana kao karega kuura kooya kamuti karige kora, kora koora keehitha kahigaini.
English:
The child saw a frog and ran, told the sibling to run away, the sibling refused to run away, took a stick to hit the frog, the frog ran away and hid under a stone.
Original:
Gitingi gitingigititikika
English:
Hey, this log can not be lifted!
Original:
Nguku ino ni ikanyakanyanaga kana ndikanyakanyanaga?
English:
Does this chicken bite, or it doesn't?
Original:
Gĩkũyũ gĩkũyũ gĩgĩkũyũ
English:
Kikuyu Kikuyu, how fast you go
Original:
Njambi ya njambi iria inyagwa na nyambiriria
English:
Njambi the Njambi tree that was struck by lightning
Original:
Ĩtũrĩ rĩa gĩtũrĩ gĩgĩtũrĩ
English:
The chicken of the fat chicken, how fat it is