Tonguebreaker

What would be called a tongue twister in English is known as a tongue
breaker in German.  Here's one in Swiss German:

{De Papscht hät z Spiez s Späckbschteck z spaat bschtellt.}

/d@p"A:pSthattsSp"i@tssSp"akXpStekXtSp"A:tpStelt/

"The Pope has ordered the bacon silverware in Spiez too late."

Note the beautiful /kX/ affricates.  =)  It's the many alveolars which
cause the problems though.


And another one in High German:

{Blaukraut bleibt Blaukraut, Brautkleid bleibt Brautkleid.}

/blaUkRaUtblaIptblaUkRaUt bRaUtklaIdblaIptbRaUtklaId/

"Purple cabbage remains purple cabbage, wedding dress remains wedding dress."

The truly wicked thing about this one is the mixing of /bl/, /kR/, /bR/
and /kl/.


Does anyone else have a Tonguebreaker from a natlang or conlang that we
might not have heard before?  (I'm sure everyone knows "Fischer's Fritz
fischt frische Fische" by now...)


-- Christian Thalmann

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