Kikuyu Tongue Twisters
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| Original: | Ninguria githeri Ndiriaga githeri |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| English: | Grandmother, all children from school drank tea and finished. |
| Original: | Kana kona kora kora nako kora kona kana kora. |
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| English: | A child saw a frog and ran and a frog saw a child and ran. |
| Original: | Niu kuria Kuria kana nia kuria kuria. |
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| English: | Will you ask Kuria (male name) if he will eat over there. |
| Original: | Dathie donyo daria duma dugu dakena dainoka! |
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| 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. |
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| 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? |
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| English: | I just fenced (made a fence) here who undid the fence? |
| Original: | Ndahîrîgahîrîgire haha-î, nûû wahîrîgahîrîgûrire |
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| 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. |
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| English: | Please, grandmother, give birth to your children so that when taken to court they will all say they are yours. |
| Original: | Cucu ciere cian ciaku ciothe ciathie cira ciorio ciuge ciea ciothe ciari ciaku. |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| English: | Hey, this log can not be lifted! |
| Original: | Nguku ino ni ikanyakanyanaga kana ndikanyakanyanaga? |
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| English: | Does this chicken bite, or it doesn't? |
| Original: | Gĩkũyũ gĩkũyũ gĩgĩkũyũ |
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| English: | Kikuyu Kikuyu, how fast you go |
| Original: | Njambi ya njambi iria inyagwa na nyambiriria |
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| English: | Njambi the Njambi tree that was struck by lightning |
| Original: | Ĩtũrĩ rĩa gĩtũrĩ gĩgĩtũrĩ |
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| English: | The chicken of the fat chicken, how fat it is |