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	Shelta language - Definition, explanation
		Shelta is a language spoken by parts of the Irish Traveller people.
		Shelta's vocabulary is based largely on Irish (with many words inverted in a style not unlike French verlan slang).
		Although heavily influenced by non-Celtic languages, Shelta is sometimes mistakenly classified as part of the Goidelic branch of the Celtic language family; it is, in fact, a cant based on Irish and English, with a primarily English-based syntax.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/s/sh/shelta_language.php (350 words)

	Goidelic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shelta is sometimes mistakenly thought to be a Goidelic language when it is, in fact, a cant based on Irish and English, with a primarily English-based syntax.
		Manx, the former common language of the Isle of Man, is closely akin to the Gaelic spoken in north east Ireland and the now extinct Gaelic of Galloway (in southwest Scotland), with heavy influence from Old Norse because of the Viking invasions.
		Before the Irish potato famine of the 1840s, the language was spoken by the vast majority of the population, but the famine and emigration, as well as an implication by the English ruling classes that Irish was for the ignorant, led to a decline which has begun to reverse only very recently.
	domainhelp.search.com /reference/Goidelic_languages (1897 words)

	Goidelic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shelta is sometimes mistakenly thought to be a Goidelic language when it is, in fact, a cant based on Irish and English, with a primarily English-based syntax.
		Manx, the former common language of the Isle of Man, is descended from the Gaelic spoken in north east Ireland and the now extinct Gaelic of Galloway (in southwest Scotland), with heavy influence from Old Norse because of the Viking invasions.
		Ireland's national language is the 21st to be given such recognition by the EU and previously had the status of a treaty language.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Goidelic (1235 words)

	Shelta language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shelta (also known as Gammen, Sheldru, or simply the Cant) is a language spoken by parts of the Irish Traveller people.
		Shelta's vocabulary is based largely on Irish, with many words inverted in a style not unlike French verlan slang; for example, the word for 'girl' is lakeen, from the Irish cailín, and the word rodas, meaning door, has its roots in the Irish doras.
		Although heavily influenced by non-Celtic languages, Shelta is sometimes mistakenly classified as part of the Goidelic branch of the Celtic language family; it is, in fact, a cant based on Irish and English, with a primarily English-based syntax.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shelta_language (296 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		Shelta (also known as Gammen, Sheldru, Pavee, or simply the Cant) is a language spoken by parts of the Irish Traveller people that is often used to conceal the meaning from those outside the group.
		Much of Shelta's vocabulary is based loosely on Irish, with many words inverted in a style not unlike French verlan slang; for example, the word for 'girl' is lackeen, from the Irish cailÃn, and the word rodas, meaning door, has its roots in the Irish doras.
		Shelta originates from older versions of Irish, and so is originally a part of the Goidelic branch of the Celtic language family.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Shelta_language (519 words)

	Thari: The Language of Amber
		The word Shelta first appeared in 1882 in the book 'The Gypsies' by 'gypsiologist' Charles Leland, who claimed to have discovered it as the 'fifth Celtic tongue.' Leland and others since (including George Sampson and Basil Ivan Rakoczi) have asserted that it is of ancient origin.
		The ancient druids were known to have spoken a secret language -- thus some conjecture was that the secret language of the druids was adopted by other travelling folk to conceal their speech.
		Shelta's vocabulary is based largely on Irish, with many words inverted in a style not unlike French verlan slang; for example, the word for 'girl' is lackeen, from the Irish cailin, and the word rodas, meaning door, has its roots in the Irish doras.
	www.darkshire.net /~jhkim/rpg/amber/sheltathari.html (520 words)

	Shelta language -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Shelta is a language spoken by parts of the (Click link for more info and facts about Irish Traveller) Irish Traveller people.
		Shelta's vocabulary is based largely on (The Celtic language of Ireland) Irish (with many words inverted in a style not unlike French (Click link for more info and facts about verlan) verlan slang).
		The language is spoken almost exclusively by Travellers, though linguists have documented Shelta since at least the (The decade from 1870 to 1879) 1870s.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sh/shelta_language.htm (349 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Goidelic
		Goidelic languages were once restricted to Ireland, but in the 6th century Irish colonists and invaders began migrating to northern England and Scotland and eventually assimilated the Brythonic language speakers who lived there.
		Manx, the former common language of the Isle of Man, is descended from the Gaelic spoken in north east Ireland and the now extinct Gaelic of Galloway (Scotland), with heavy influence from Old Norse because of the Viking invasions.
		This Germanic language acquired the name Scots in the early 16th century, after the Gaelic had acquired the name Erse, meaning Irish.) The culturally repressive measures taken against the rebellious highland communities by the British crown following the Culloden Rebellion of 1746 caused a further decline in the language's use.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Goidelic (1085 words)

	Celtic Languages Essays\| Celtic Languages Dissertations
		The Celtic languages are the languages descended from Proto-Celtic, or "Common Celtic", a branch of the greater Indo-European language family.
		Today, Celtic languages are now limited to a few areas in the British Isles, eastern Canada, Patagonia, scattered groups in the United States and Australia, and on the peninsula of Brittany in France.
		Within the Indo-European family, the Celtic languages have sometimes been placed with the Italic languages in a common Italo-Celtic subfamily, a hypothesis that is now largely discarded, in favour of the assumption of language contact between pre-Celtic and pre-Italic communities.
	www.languages.degree-essays.com /celtic-languages-essays.html (1466 words)

	Etruscan
		Linguists have sifted through the languages of the world searching for clues to unravel the mystery of this enigmatic people and their perplexing language, but to date no clear relationship has been shown to exist between the Etruscan language and any other known language.
		Although Etruscan is an unknown language in the sense that it cannot be assigned to any language family, it is not an undeciphered language.
		Shelta is a cant or arbitrarily contrived speech which the eminent Gaelic scholar Kuno Meyer believed to have been at one time the possession of the Filid or ancient poets of Ireland, and to be the same as the cryptic speech called Ogham.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Thebes/4247/default.htm (1873 words)

	Encyclopedia: Shelta language
		The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England.
		Proto-Indo-European Indo-European studies Celtic languages are a branch of the Indo-European languages.
		Cant is a term generally used to describe secret languages (cryptolects) used by gypsies, thieves, and others who have a need to communicate freely without necessarily conveying their meaning to a wider audience.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Shelta-language (571 words)

	Roma people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Analysis of the Romany language has shown that it is related to languages spoken in northern India and Pakistan, such as Hindi and Punjabi.
		Their language seems to be grammatically identical with other (Swiss) German dialects; the origin of the lexicon however, incorporates German, Romany, Yiddish and other words.
		Their language, Shelta, is mainly based on an Irish Gaelic lexicon and an English-based grammar, with influence from Romany.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roma_people (3453 words)

	Shelta. - Hyperborean, Indian and Artificial Languages - What's Been Published (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The secret languages of Ireland : [with special reference to the origin and nature of the Shelta language partly based upon collections and manuscripts of the late John Sampson / by R.A. Stewart Macalister].
		The secret languages of Ireland, with special reference to the origin and nature of the Shelta language, partly based upon collections and manuscripts of the late John Sampson.
		The secret languages of Ireland : with special reference to the origin and nature of the Shelta language, partly based upon collections and manuscripts of the late John Sampson / by R. Stewart Macalister.
	www.pitbossannie.com /rps-pm-shelta.html (151 words)

	Culture of Ireland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The two dominant languages in Ireland have long influenced each other, with the local English dialect adopting aspects of the Irish grammatical structure, and in turn, Irish drawing much vocabulary from the foreign tongue.
		Several other languages are spoken on the island, including Ulster Scots, a variety of Scots spoken in Northern Ireland, and Shelta, a mix of Irish and Romany spoken widely by the Travellers.
		Some other languages have entered Ireland with immigrants – for example, Chinese is now the second most widely spoken language in Northern Ireland, with Urdu also a significant minority language there.
	www.hartselle.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Irish_culture (3555 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Argot
		ARGOT Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language...
		The SLANG of a restricted, often suspect, social group: ‘They have their own argot: they bimble, yomp, or tab across the peat and couth a shirt in readiness for a Saturday night bop with the Bennies (local’ (Colin Smith, Observer, 26 May 1985, writing about British soldiers in...
		SHELTA Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language...
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Argot (382 words)

	Directory - Science: Social Sciences: Linguistics: Languages: Natural: Pidgins and Creoles: English Based (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Attitudes, Local Varieties and English Language Teaching · cached · This article discusses the issues surrounding the phenomenon of local varieties of English, those developments which take place where forms of the ex-colonial language have evolved and developed in their own right independently of their metropolitan sources.
		Leeward Caribbean Creole English: A Language of Antigua and Barbuda · Summary of the linguistic situation of Leeward Caribbean Creole English.
		Shelta Vocabulary · iweb · cached · The Shelta vocabulary from "The Secret Languages of Ireland" by R. Macalister, 1931.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=69518 (283 words)

	Gaeilge - The Irish Language
		Referring to the language as "Gaelic" suggests that the language is as distant and unrelated to modern Irish life as the civilisation of the ancient Gaels.
		Irish is given recognition by the Constitution of Ireland as the first official language of the Republic of Ireland (with English being a second official language), despite the limited distribution of fluency among the population of the country.
		As a treaty language of the European Union, the highest-level documents of the EU are translated into Irish; in addition, the language has also recently received a degree of formal recognition in Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom, under the Good Friday Agreement.
	www.computer-2tr.com /Ireland/links/Gaeilge.html (2904 words)

	Gypsy Wagons
		Shelta: the language of the Irish Travellers The Travelling people form a distinct group within Irish society, and have their own secret language Shelta, also known as Gammon or Cant.
		Shelta had distinctive forms in the past, relating to occupation, although the differences in dialect are much less clearly defined today between the various strata of Traveller society.
		Both the Celtic scholar Kuno Meyer (1858-1919) and the Romani scholar John Sampson (1862-1931) believed Shelta to be a language that was centuries old, perhaps from as far back as before the thirteenth century.
	www.angelfire.com /mo2/gypsyrunedhyn/gwagons.html (1086 words)

	THE CRYPTOLECTAL SPEECH C (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		While the original Gypsy language and core culture can be traced to India over a millennium ago, the specific histories of the other two groups are less abundantly documented or understood.
		Because of the age of the language and because of its roots in inflected Romani, songs and expressions from an earlier time are retained which contain terms and constructions no longer part of the current speech.
		The second and third are typical of the way the same language is spoken today by a diminishing number in Britain; case agreement is not carefully maintained, and conjoined imperatives replace the “deeper” complex construction.
	radoc.net:8088 /RADOC-57-TRAVELLERTALK.htm (4854 words)

	Cant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The term is used in heraldry where it refers to a coat of arms containing a pun on the name of the owner.
		Thieves' cant refers to the mysterious speech of rogues, beggars, thieves, etc. More information about this language can be found in the Canting Dictionary.
		Cant on a road or railway is the difference in elevation of the two sides of the track to help go around curves.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cant (302 words)

	Encyclopedia: Irish Traveller
		Irish Travellers are distinguished from the settled communities of the countries in which they live by their own language and customs.
		Shelta is the traditional language of Travellers but they also speak English with a distinct accent and mannerisms.
		The Traveller language (Shelta) is dying out and only the older Travellers still know the language completely.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Irish-Traveller (1344 words)

	Manx language -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		This is because Manx developed without a written literature, and when attempts were made to introduce a standardised (A method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols) orthography for the language, the choice was made to spell the words in an English manner.
		In the late spoken language of the (Click link for more info and facts about 20th century) 20th century the system was breaking down, with speakers frequently failing to use lenition in environments where it was called for, and occasionally using it in environments where it was not called for.
		SCO - (The Gaelic language of Scotland) Scottish Gaelic, IRL - (The Celtic language of Ireland) Irish
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/M/Ma/Manx_language.htm (782 words)

	You Who?: Snatch
		They have their own language, called Shelta which is a mix of Gaelic and English, but neither can understand it.
		Shelta is still taught to Traveller children by parents, however, mainly as a method of reinforcing community ties and as a source of ethnic pride.
		A few scholars have attempted to record the language over the years, but most are still hesitant to share this "secret" language with the outside world.
	www.someblogs.com /youwho/archives/000049.html (247 words)

	Shelta - Esolang
		Shelta is a language designed and implemented by Chris Pressey.
		Shelta was designed as a successor to Maentwrog.
		It is a low-level language inspired by Forth, False and Assembler.
	esolangs.org /wiki/Shelta (64 words)

	Ireland Information Guide , Irish, Counties, Facts, Statistics, Tourism, Culture, How
		Shelta is a language spoken by parts of the Irish Traveller people.
		Although heavily influenced by non-Celtic languages, Shelta is classified as part of the Goidelic branch of the Celtic language family.
		The language is spoken almost exclusively by Travellers, though linguists have documented Shelta since at least the 1870s.
	www.irelandinformationguide.com /Shelta (242 words)

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