Rwanda or Kinyarwanda Tongue Twisters
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| Original: | Ta izo njyo uze urye izi nzuzi. |
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| English: | Drop those pots fragments and come to eat these courgette grains. |
| Original: | Ibibiribiri bibiri biri mu murima wa Mubirigi. Hari umugabo wo kwica ibibiribiri bibibri! |
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| English: | Two birds (I don't know the name in English) are in Mubirigi's field. Is there any man who can kill two birds! |
| Original: | Icyamamaye abakobwa b'abakristo n'abamulamu |
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| English: | Beautiful Christian girls and mulamu girls |
| Original: | Ibyo utwite iriho umwe uri kure |
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| English: | The thing that one person says another person should do |
| Original: | Icyo gihe kireba kikiga, kikiga kireba kirekire |
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| English: | As you speak, you stutter, but as you stutter, you speak fluently |
| Original: | Icyo ugiye kwihutira uti: "Ndi muhutiriza, muhutiriza nawe" |
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| English: | As you give, you say: "I am giving, and you are also giving"" |
| Original: | Icyo gihe ntawapfuye umusambanyi ntawapfuye |
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| English: | As I pound the mortars, I pound them |
| Original: | Niwagaragarayo umutima wanyu |
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| English: | I am troubled in my heart |
| Original: | Inkuru za Kigali zirimo ibyago |
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| English: | The news of Kigali is like bird feathers |
| Original: | Icyo kintu kikora umwe ukora ukora |
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| English: | The thing that one person does, another person does as well |
| Original: | Icyo gihe umuntu uzisobanura ubunge, ubunge bw'umuntu buzisobanura |
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| English: | As a person speaks to a parliament, the parliament speaks to the person |
| Original: | Ubwo utinya iribyo, utinya ku isuka |
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| English: | As you eat this food, you eat to get full |