Strč Prst Skrz Krk
Strč prst skrz krk () is a Czech and Slovak tongue-twister meaning "stick a finger through the neck". The sentence is well known for being a semantically and syntactically valid clause without a single vowel, the nucleus of each syllable being a syllabic r, a common feature among many Slavic languages. It is often used as an example of such a phrase when learning Czech or Slovak as a foreign language. In fact, both Czech and Slovak have two syllabic liquid consonants, the other being syllabic l. (There is also the syllabic bilabial nasal m in in Czech.) As a result, there are plenty of words without vowels. Examples of long words of this type are , , and ''čtvrtsmršť'', the latter two being artificial occasionalisms. There are other examples of vowelless sentences in Czech and Slovak, such as , meaning "a mole farted through grass, having swallowed a handful of grains". The longest Czech vowelless sentence (with 25 words and 82 consonants) as of 2013 is ''Škrt plch ...
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