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Loglan or Lojban Tongue Twisters
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1st International Collection of Tongue Twisters
www.uebersetzung.at/twister/jbo.htm © 1996-2010 by Mr.Twister

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le crisa srasu cu rirci crino

by Michael Helsem

2
mi na djuno le du'u klama fa makau la makaus. makau makau makau

3
la bab. zbasu loi bakyzbabu loi bakygrasu

by Pierre Abbat

4
tisna fala tsani le cnita tsina lo tinci tinsa

5
lo'u lu le la li'u le'u

from a Logban mailing list

6
cire cilce carce jarco ce'e reci cilce carce cu jarco
.i cire cilce carce jarco cu jarco reci cilce carce
.ije'i reci cilce carce cu se jarco cire cilce carce jarco

7
la santas cu santa'a santa

Rough Translations

The summer grass is unusually green.
I don't know who came to Macao, nor whence, which way or by which means.
Bob makes cow-soap out of cow-grease.
Sky fills the under-stage with tin stiff-stuff.
It is "le la". Two articles (Lojban has a separate article for proper names) quoted twice. Lojban distinguishes whether the string being quoted is grammatically complete.
Thirty-two wild cart showers show twenty-three wild carts. Do thirty-two wild cart showers each show twenty-three wild carts, or are twenty-three wild carts each shown by thirty-two wild cart showers?
Santa is a Spanish-speaking umbrella