Words from Romany, Shelta, Yiddish, back slang, rhyming slang and other non-standard English are interspersed with words of Italian origin. |
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American Travellers' Cant was originally also Shelta but is now largely Anglicized. |
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Europe has plenty of marginalised social groups, often with traditions of nomadism and their own languages: Irish Tinkers, for example, who speak Shelta. |
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A cant, called Shelta, is spoken by Irish Travellers, often as a means to conceal meaning from those outside the group. |
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I did so myself when I recorded the Traveller language, called Shelta by many academics and Cant by most Travellers. |
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Other languages spoken in Ireland include Shelta, spoken by Irish Travellers, and a dialect of Scots is spoken by some Ulster Scots people in Donegal. |
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