Totoiana ("Totoian"), also known as the "Totoian language" (Romanian: Limba totoiană) or the "inverted language" (Romanian: Limba întoarsă),[1] is a speech form used in the village of Totoi in Alba County, Romania.
[3] Totoiana was created with the purpose of being unintelligible for normal Romanian speakers, although its origins or the reason why this would be needed are unknown.
[1][2][3] It has been said that, since the inhabitants of Totoi were good wood artisans who traded with their products, Totoiana could have been created so that other merchants could not understand them.
However, George Cadar, a member of the Romanian Association of Semiotic Studies, claims to have recorded a similar form of speech far from Alba County, although he did not elaborate on this.
To speak Totoiana, the Romanian word is said from the middle to the end and then the beginning is added to it.