What language games do you play in your native language?

Question

In English, we have a game called "Pig Latin". In this language game, we move the first consonant sound of the word to the end of the word, and then add the sounds [ei] at the end. In other words, the phrase "long time" in Pig Latin would be "onglay imetay".

Many languages have similar sound games. Please describe similar games that you can do in your native language.

Answer 1

In Brazil, children used to use "the P- language" when they did not want to be easily understood, but I've seen it used in an American film too.

It works by adding a syllable starting with p- before word syllables. So for instance, "long season" would turn into "ponglong peaseaponson".

I guess it is easier to speak and decodify in Brazilian Portuguese as vowels have stable sounds and it is a syllabic language, while English is stress-based and vowel sounds change according to the consonants and vowels that surround it.

Answer 2

In Turkish we have 'Kelime Bulmaca' and 'Adam Asmaca'..In Kelime Bulmaca for example u say 'table' and the other player must say a word starting with 'e'.For example other says 'elmas'.And you can't say a word ending with 'ğ' because there is no word starting with 'ğ' in Turkish.

And in Adam Asmaca asker chooses a word and the other tries to guess it with saying letters.For each wrong letter asker hangs your man.And when the man completes, guesser loses.

Answer 3

In Japanese there is "shiritori" where you take the last character of a word and make it something else. Ending it with "n" means you lose (because no word begins with that letter).

ex:
Shiritori
Ringo
Gohan
(As you can see, I lost.)

It's also a very easy game to transfer over to English. Such as:
Hello
Ox
Xylophone
Elephant
Turtle
Enigma...