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This exact thing is called "washawasheo" or "washawashear" in (Mexican) Spanish. It would be cool to know what languages have this, as I'm pretty sure not all of them do (Russian doesn't, for example).

Reminds me of the (supposed?) etymology of “barbarian”:

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

> The Greeks used the term barbarian for all non-Greek-speaking peoples, including the Egyptians, Persians, Medes and Phoenicians, emphasizing their otherness. According to Greek writers, this was because the language they spoke sounded to Greeks like gibberish represented by the sounds "bar..bar..;"

And a band made a hit song in Spanish about it in the early 2000s, Asereje: https://youtu.be/V0PisGe66mY

This song is loosely a cover of Rapper's Delight.

Interesting, I have never heard the expression "chanter en yaourt" used for anything other than fake English.

Interesting! I imagine this is specific to France as I’ve never heard this in Québec...