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Sentence Examples
| 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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Examples from Classical Literature
| Shelta is perhaps the last Old British dialect as yet existing which has thus far remained undiscovered. |
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| This language, or jargon, known as Shelta, has been the subject of much learned writing. |
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| Our informant could give only a single specimen of the Shelta literature. |
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