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How to use Shelta in a sentence

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Words from Romany, Shelta, Yiddish, back slang, rhyming slang and other non-standard English are interspersed with words of Italian origin.
American Travellers' Cant was originally also Shelta but is now largely Anglicized.
Europe has plenty of marginalised social groups, often with traditions of nomadism and their own languages: Irish Tinkers, for example, who speak Shelta.
A cant, called Shelta, is spoken by Irish Travellers, often as a means to conceal meaning from those outside the group.
I did so myself when I recorded the Traveller language, called Shelta by many academics and Cant by most Travellers.
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.
Examples from Classical Literature
Shelta is perhaps the last Old British dialect as yet existing which has thus far remained undiscovered.
This language, or jargon, known as Shelta, has been the subject of much learned writing.
Our informant could give only a single specimen of the Shelta literature.
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