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Re:Verlan: French slang that inverses words by emiliovesprini on Sunday February 02, 2020 @05:03PM (#22219766)
Similar things in other languages!:

Greek's Podaná: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podan%C3%A1

Rioplatense Spanish's Vesre: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesre

Serbo-Croatian's Šatrovački: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0atrova%C4%8Dki

(Please let me know if I missed any.)

Here for completion but not really the same if you ask me:

English's Back Slang https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_slang and Australian "Butchers' Talk" https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/behind-that-tray...

Edits: formatting.

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Re:Verlan: French slang that inverses words by _nalply on Monday February 03, 2020 @10:52AM (#22225219)
Bernese German has a similar thing, however they don't swap syllables, they move the initial consonant cluster to the end of the word, and add vowels, like this:

Schnure -> Ire-schnee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mattenenglisch

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Re:Verlan: French slang that inverses words by emiliovesprini on Thursday February 06, 2020 @03:56PM (#22260189)
Yeah, lots of languages have things like this like Pig Latin and Jeringozo.
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