Língua do Pê is a language game spoken in Brazil

Brazil

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 and Portugal

Portugal

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 with Portuguese

Portuguese language

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. It is also known in other languages, such as Dutch

Dutch language

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.

"Double talk" dialect

This "dialect" of Língua do Pê is just like the Jeringonza

Jeringonza

Jeringonza is a Spanish language game played by children in Spain and all over Latin America. It consists of adding the letter p after each vowel of a word, and repeating the vowel. For example, Carlos turns into Cápar-lopos....

 and the Idioma F language games in Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

. It works by repeating the rime

Syllable rime

In the study of phonology in linguistics, the rime or rhyme of a syllable consists of a nucleus and an optional coda. It is the part of the syllable used in poetic rhyme, and the part that is lengthened or stressed when a person elongates or stresses a word in speech.The rime is usually the...

 of each syllable, beginning it with p (pê in Portuguese). Examples:

• você → vo-po-cê-pê
• gato → ga-pa-to-po
• menino → me-pe-ni-pi-no-po

Vowel-changing dialect

This "dialect" is like the one described above, except that some vowels are changed. When an open syllable (one that ends in a vowel) has [o] or [e] as its vowel, it is changed to [ɔ] and [ɛ], respectively.

Example:

• Você cortou o seu cabelo?

Please note that the syllables beginning with p are stressed, not the original syllables.

"Pê" dialect

This "dialect" is more like Kongarian (a language game spoken with Hungarian) than the other "dialects" of Língua do Pê. To speak it, the syllable pê is inserted before every syllable.

Example:

• pêLem pêBra pêCo pêMo pêE pêRa pêLe pêGal?
• Lembra como era legal?

Dutch

In the Netherlands, the most common version is to instert the syllable "pe" before every sonant.

Example:

• De boer woont op het platteland.
• Depe bepoer wepoont epop hepet plepattepelepand.

External links

• "A Língua do Pê." Online: October 1, 2005.
• "Introdução à Criptologia." Online: October 1, 2005.
• "Sum: Pig Latins." Online: October 1, 2005.

See also

• Language game
• Jeringonza
  Jeringonza
  Jeringonza is a Spanish language game played by children in Spain and all over Latin America. It consists of adding the letter p after each vowel of a word, and repeating the vowel. For example, Carlos turns into Cápar-lopos....