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Preferred term

sthShelta  

Type

  • language

Definition

  • Shelta is a language spoken by Irish Travellers, particularly in Ireland, but also parts of Great Britain. It is widely known as the Cant, to its native speakers in Ireland as Gammon and to the linguistic community as Shelta. It was often used as a cryptolect to exclude outsiders from comprehending conversations between travellers,

ISO 639-3 code

  • sth

In other languages

  • Shelta

    Basque

  • 雪爾塔語

    Chinese

  • Shelta

    Dutch

  • Finnish

  • Shelta

    French

  • Shelta

    Galician

  • Shelta

    German

  • שלטה

    Hebrew

  • An tSeiltis

    Irish

  • 셸타어

    Korean

  • Shelta

    Low German

  • Sheltish

    Manx

  • Shelta

    Norwegian

  • Lenga shelta

    Piedmontese

  • Język shelta

    Polish

  • Língua shelta

    Portuguese

  • Шелта

    Russian

  • Seulra

    Scottish Gaelic

  • Shelta

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/sth

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