Chris@909: Sentences that contain all letters commonly used in a language
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Chris@909: Markus Kuhn <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/> -- 2001-09-02
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Chris@909: Danish (da)
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Chris@909:   Quizdeltagerne spiste jordbær med fløde, mens cirkusklovnen
Chris@909:   Wolther spillede på xylofon.
Chris@909:   (= Quiz contestants were eating strawbery with cream while Wolther
Chris@909:   the circus clown played on xylophone.)
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Chris@909: German (de)
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Chris@909:   Falsches Üben von Xylophonmusik quält jeden größeren Zwerg
Chris@909:   (= Wrongful practicing of xylophone music tortures every larger dwarf)
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Chris@909:   Zwölf Boxkämpfer jagten Eva quer über den Sylter Deich
Chris@909:   (= Twelve boxing fighters hunted Eva across the dike of Sylt)
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Chris@909:   Heizölrückstoßabdämpfung
Chris@909:   (= fuel oil recoil absorber)
Chris@909:   (jqvwxy missing, but all non-ASCII letters in one word)
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Chris@909: English (en)
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Chris@909:   The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
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Chris@909: Spanish (es)
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Chris@909:   El pingüino Wenceslao hizo kilómetros bajo exhaustiva lluvia y 
Chris@909:   frío, añoraba a su querido cachorro.
Chris@909:   (Contains every letter and every accent, but not every combination
Chris@909:   of vowel + acute.)
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Chris@909: French (fr)
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Chris@909:   Portez ce vieux whisky au juge blond qui fume sur son île intérieure, à
Chris@909:   côté de l'alcôve ovoïde, où les bûches se consument dans l'âtre, ce
Chris@909:   qui lui permet de penser à la cænogenèse de l'être dont il est question
Chris@909:   dans la cause ambiguë entendue à Moÿ, dans un capharnaüm qui,
Chris@909:   pense-t-il, diminue çà et là la qualité de son œuvre. 
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Chris@909:   l'île exiguë
Chris@909:   Où l'obèse jury mûr
Chris@909:   Fête l'haï volapük,
Chris@909:   Âne ex aéquo au whist,
Chris@909:   Ôtez ce vœu déçu.
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Chris@909:   Le cœur déçu mais l'âme plutôt naïve, Louÿs rêva de crapaüter en
Chris@909:   canoë au delà des îles, près du mälström où brûlent les novæ.
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Chris@909: Irish Gaelic (ga)
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Chris@909:   D'fhuascail Íosa, Úrmhac na hÓighe Beannaithe, pór Éava agus Ádhaimh
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Chris@909: Hungarian (hu)
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Chris@909:   Árvíztűrő tükörfúrógép
Chris@909:   (= flood-proof mirror-drilling machine, only all non-ASCII letters)
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Chris@909: Icelandic (is)
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Chris@909:   Kæmi ný öxi hér ykist þjófum nú bæði víl og ádrepa
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Chris@909:   Sævör grét áðan því úlpan var ónýt
Chris@909:   (some ASCII letters missing)
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Chris@909: Greek (el)
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Chris@909:   Γαζέες καὶ μυρτιὲς δὲν θὰ βρῶ πιὰ στὸ χρυσαφὶ ξέφωτο
Chris@909:   (= No more shall I see acacias or myrtles in the golden clearing)
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Chris@909:   Ξεσκεπάζω τὴν ψυχοφθόρα βδελυγμία
Chris@909:   (= I uncover the soul-destroying abhorrence)
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Chris@909: Japanese (jp)
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Chris@909:   Hiragana: (Iroha)
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Chris@909:   いろはにほへとちりぬるを
Chris@909:   わかよたれそつねならむ
Chris@909:   うゐのおくやまけふこえて
Chris@909:   あさきゆめみしゑひもせす
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Chris@909:   Katakana:
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Chris@909:   イロハニホヘト チリヌルヲ ワカヨタレソ ツネナラム
Chris@909:   ウヰノオクヤマ ケフコエテ アサキユメミシ ヱヒモセスン
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Chris@909: Hebrew (iw)
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Chris@909:   ? דג סקרן שט בים מאוכזב ולפתע מצא לו חברה איך הקליטה
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Chris@909: Polish (pl)
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Chris@909:   Pchnąć w tę łódź jeża lub ośm skrzyń fig
Chris@909:   (= To push a hedgehog or eight bins of figs in this boat)
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Chris@909: Russian (ru)
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Chris@909:   В чащах юга жил бы цитрус? Да, но фальшивый экземпляр!
Chris@909:   (= Would a citrus live in the bushes of south? Yes, but only a fake one!)
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Chris@909: Thai (th)
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Chris@909:   ๏ เป็นมนุษย์สุดประเสริฐเลิศคุณค่า  กว่าบรรดาฝูงสัตว์เดรัจฉาน
Chris@909:   จงฝ่าฟันพัฒนาวิชาการ           อย่าล้างผลาญฤๅเข่นฆ่าบีฑาใคร
Chris@909:   ไม่ถือโทษโกรธแช่งซัดฮึดฮัดด่า     หัดอภัยเหมือนกีฬาอัชฌาสัย
Chris@909:   ปฏิบัติประพฤติกฎกำหนดใจ        พูดจาให้จ๊ะๆ จ๋าๆ น่าฟังเอย ฯ
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Chris@909:   [The copyright for the Thai example is owned by The Computer
Chris@909:   Association of Thailand under the Royal Patronage of His Majesty the
Chris@909:   King.]
Chris@909: 
Chris@909: Please let me know if you find others! Special thanks to the people
Chris@909: from all over the world who contributed these sentences.