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Galician
Etymology
From trabar (“to bite”) + lingua (“tongue”). Compare Portuguese trava-língua and Spanish trabalenguas.
Pronunciation
Noun
trabalinguas m (invariable)
- tongue-twister (a phrase that is deliberately designed to be difficult to say correctly, usually because of varying combinations of similar phonemes)
Un trabalinguas galego: “Se vou a Bueu nun bou, vou. Se non vou nun bou, non vou.” [sɪˈβowɐβuˈewnumˈbowˈβow sɪnʊmˈbownum'bownʊm'bow]- A Galician tongue-twister: “If I'll go to Bueu in a bou (ship), I'll go; but if I won't go in a bou, I won't go.”
References
- “trabalinguas” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
- “trabalinguas” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.