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Bengali or Bangla Tongue Twisters

1st International Collection of Tongue Twisters
www.tongue-twister.net/bn.htm © 1996-2018 by Mr.Twister

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1

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jole chun taja, tele chul taja

2

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pakhi paka pnepe khay

3

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chacha chnacha chata chnechona, aa-chnacha chata chnacho

4

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babla gachhe baagh jhulchhe

5

baaro haari raabri baro barabari

6

kacha gab paka gab

7

kolikatar kakoli kakake kohilo: kaka, kak keno ka-ka kore?

8

Lal Ril Nil Ril

9

রুই মাছের লেজ লাল

Rough Translations

  1. up Lime fresh in water, hair fresh in oil.
  2. up The bird eats ripe papaya.
  3. up Uncle don't polish the polished bamboo-strips, polish the un-polished ones!
  4. up The Tiger is hanging from the babla-tree.
  5. up Twelve bowl of "Raabri" (sweet) is too much!
  6. up Green gab (a fruit). ripe gab.
  7. up Calcutta's Kakoli asked his uncle: "Uncle! Why (do) the crows say kra-kra?"
  8. up Red reel, blue reel
  9. up Rui fish tail red.

Thanks

Chitrangshu Banerjee, Rowson Habib, Shagufta Hossain, Tapan Kumar Mukherjee, Emanuele P., Nilmani (Neil) Pramanik

Links

Ethnologue, Languages of the World: Bengali

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