Editing Tongue twister (section)

== Other languages ==
Tongue twisters exist in many languages, such as {{langx|es|trabalenguas|lit=tongue jammer}}, and {{langx|de|Zungenbrecher|lit=tongue breaker}}.

The complexity of tongue twisters varies from language to language. For example, in [[Luganda]] vowels differ by length so tongue twisters exploit vowel length: "Akawala akaawa Kaawa kaawa akaawa ka wa?". Translation: "The girl who gave Kaawa bitter coffee, where is she from?"<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Wainaina |first=Michael |editor-last=Peek |editor-first=Philip |editor2-last=Yankah |editor2-first=Kwesi |title=Tongue Twisters in East Africa |journal=Encyclopedia of African Folklore |publisher=[[Routledge]] |pages=947-949}}</ref>

=== Shibboleths ===
[[Shibboleth]]s, that is, phrases in a language that are difficult for someone who is not a [[native speaker]] of that language to say might be regarded as a type of tongue-twist.{{Citation needed|date=July 2007}} An example is [[Georgian language|Georgian]] ''baq'aq'i ts'q'alshi q'iq'inebs'' ("a frog croaks in the water"), in which ''q''' is a [[uvular ejective]]. Another example, the [[Czech language|Czech]] and [[Slovak language|Slovak]] ''[[strč prst skrz krk]]'' ("stick a finger through the throat") is difficult for a non-native speaker due to the absence of vowels, although [[syllabic consonant|syllabic r]] is a common sound in Czech, Slovak and some other [[Slavic languages]].

=== Finger-fumblers ===
The [[sign language]] equivalent of a tongue twister is called a '''finger-fumbler'''.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Hanson|first=Vicki|date=1991|title=Tongue-Twister Effects in the Silent Reading of Hearing and Deaf College Students|url=http://www.haskins.yale.edu/sr/SR107/SR107_12.pdf|journal=Journal of Memory and Language|volume=30|issue=3|pages=319–330|doi=10.1016/0749-596X(91)90039-M|via=Google Scholar|access-date=2019-01-28|archive-date=2020-11-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111231646/http://www.haskins.yale.edu/sr/SR107/SR107_12.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Alliteration in Culture|last=Roper|first=Jonathan|publisher=Springer|year=2011|isbn=9780230305878|pages=8}}</ref> According to Susan Fischer, the phrase ''Good blood, bad blood'' is a tongue twister in English as well as a finger-fumbler in [[American Sign Language|ASL]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.umich.edu/~archive/linguistics/linguist.list/volume.2/no.251-300 |title=Linguist List, Vol. 2 |last1=Aristar |first1=Anthony |last2=Dry |first2=Helen |date=27 May 1991 |publisher=[[University of Michigan]] |access-date=13 March 2010 |archive-date=4 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100704061053/http://www.umich.edu/~archive/linguistics/linguist.list/volume.2/no.251-300 |url-status=live }}</ref>

===One-syllable article===
[[One-syllable article]] is a form of Mandarin Chinese tongue twister, written in Classical Chinese. Due to Mandarin Chinese having only four tonal ranges (compared to nine in Cantonese, for example), these works sound like a work of one syllable in different tonal range when spoken in Mandarin,<ref>{{Cite web|title=15 Chinese Tongue Twisters|url=https://www.maayot.com/blog/15-interesting-chinese-tongue-twisters/|access-date=6 September 2020|website=maayot|date=September 2020|archive-date=25 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201025155018/https://www.maayot.com/blog/15-interesting-chinese-tongue-twisters/|url-status=live}}</ref> but are far more comprehensible when spoken in another dialect.