| ommon language games |
| Host Language | Game Name | Basic Rules | Notes |
| Bulgarian | | Insert 'pe' before each syllable. | |
| Dutch | | Reversed elements and words. | A mercantile code |
| English (etc.) | Pig Latin | Move the first consonant in each syllable, if any, to end of the syllable and add 'ay'. | |
| English (etc.) | Pig Greek | Insert 'ob' after each consonant. | |
| English | Bicycle | Insert 'es' (IPA ) after each consonant. | |
| English | Cockney rhyming slang | Canonical rhyming word pairs; speakers often drop the second word of common pairs. | "trouble & strife" (or just "trouble") = "wife" |
| English | Dong | Spelling out words, using plain vowel sounds and '-ong' at the end of each consonant. | "Let's go" = "Long ee tong song, gong oh." |
| English | Double Dutch | Insert 'egg' or 'ag' before a vowel if the vowel indicates a new syllable. Inserting at the beginning of a word which starts with a vowel seems to be a matter of preference. | "How are you doing?" = "Heggow eggare yeggou deggoegging?" |
| English | Gibberish | Insert 'itherg', 'itug' or 'idig' before the first vowel in a syllable. | Gibberish is also a family of related language games. |
| English | Inflationary English | Anytime a number is present within a word, inflate its value by one. | "Anyone up for tennis?" becomes "Anytwo up for elevenis?" Originally part of a comedy sketch by Victor Borge. |
| English | Rechtub klat | Formed by speaking words backwards; letters may be transposed to aid pronouncability. | Used by butchers in Australia to conceal subject of shop talk from customers. |
| English | Ubbi dubbi | Insert "ub" before each spoken vowel. | From the PBS children's show Zoom; part of the Gibberish family |
| English | Tutnese | Spell out words using a lexicon of names for consonants, and special rules for double letters. | |
| English | Yardle bardle | |
| English | Zambuda | |
| Esperanto | Esperant' | Substitutes the accusative by the preposition je and the final -o of nouns by an apostrophe, all while keeping to the letter of official grammar if not actual usage. | "Oni ĉiam obeu la Fundamenton" becomes "Ĉiamu onia obe' je l' Fundament'" |
| Finnish | Sanamuunnokset | Swap first syllables of words. | A and , O and and U and Y are swapped where necessary to make the resulting words natural to speak. |
| Finnish | Kontinkieli | Add word 'kontti' after each word and apply the same conversion as in sanamuunnokset. | Finnish counterpart of Pig Latin. This game is also called 'siansaksa'. |
| French | Louchebem | Move the initial consonant to the end and add 'var'. For suffixes, prepend 'l' ('L'). | Initially a Parisian/Lyonnaise butchers' cant. |
| French | Verlan | Simple transformations and slang from Arabic. | |
| German | | 'Lav' inserted after some vowel sounds. | |
| German | B-Language | Each vowel or diphthong is reduplicted with a leading 'b'. | "Deutsche Sprache" = "Deubeutschebe Sprabachebe" |
| Hebrew | Bet-Language | Identical to the German B-Language described above. | |
| Hungarian | madrnyelv (birds' language) | Repeat each vowel and add 'v' | A variety of Gibberish (eg. ltok I see -> lvtovok) |
| Hungarian | madrnyelv (birds' language) | Repeat each vowel and add 'rg' | (eg. ltok I see -> lrgtorgok) |
| Indonesian | Prokem | Includes simple transformations of different types, acronyms and ordinary slang. | A bibliography of references pertaining to Prokem and other Indonesian-Malaysian language games: http://members.tripod.com/~THSlone/prokem.html |
| Italian | Latino Maccheronico | | |
| Japanese | Ba-bi-bu-be-bo | |Example: put "b" plus vowel between syllables, "waba taba sibi waba" instead of "watasi-wa" |
| Mandarin | Fanqie | | |
| Persian | Zaban-e-zargari | Insert the sound z somewhere into every syllable | |
| Portuguese | Sima | | |
| Portuguese | Lngua do P | | |
| Romance languages | Maccaronic Latin | Romance vocabulary is given Latinate endings. | "de Don Quijote de la Mancha" becomes "Domini Quijoti Manchegui" |
| Romanian | păsărească (birds' language) | After each syllabe, add 'p' and repeat last vowel | "maşină" becomes "mapaşipinăpă" |
| Russian | Fufajskij yazyk | | |
| Russian | Porosyachia Latin | | |
| Spanish | | 'F' is added to certain syllables. | |
| Spanish | Add a certain syllable before every original syllable. | "Perro" = "Tipetirro" |
| Spanish | Jeringoso | Each vowel is reduplicated with a separating 'p'. | "No sabe nada" = "Nopo sapabepe napadapa" |
| Spanish | Vesre | Syllable order is inverted. | "Muchacho" = "Chochamu" |
| Swedish | Allsprket | The first consonant in each word ends with 'all'. | |
| Swedish | Fikonsprket | Each word is split in two, one beginning with 'fi' and one ending in 'kon'. | |
| Swedish | I-sprikit | All vowels are changed to 'i'. | |
| Swedish | Rvarsprket | Consonants are changed to ' o '. | |
| Vietnamese | | Choose a vowel. Suffix each word with the initial consonant, if any, and then the vowel. | Using 'a', 'co bic' = 'coca bicba'. |