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A secret jargon used by Gypsies in Great Britain and Ireland, based on systematic inversion or alteration of the initial consonants of Gaelic words.
noun - an esoteric jargon of Gaelic
SHELTA - Shelta (; Irish: Seiltis) is a language spoken by Irish Travellers, particularly in Ireland and the United Kingdom. It is widely known as the Cant, t...
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| Language spoken by Travellers |
| Ancient secret language of gypsies and travellers. |
| Cryptic jargon used by travellers and gypsies |
| Secret language that's heard in place of refuge |
| Last Seen in these Crosswords & Puzzles |
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| Oct 1 2009 Irish Times (Simplex) |
| May 12 2009 The Telegraph - Toughie |
| Sep 10 1998 Irish Times (Simplex) |
| Nov 3 1997 Irish Times (Simplex) |
| Shelta description |
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| Shelta (; Irish: Seiltis) is a language spoken by Irish Travellers, particularly in Ireland and the United Kingdom. It is widely known as the Cant, to its native speakers in Ireland as De Gammon, and to the linguistic community as Shelta. It was often used as a cryptolect to exclude outsiders from comprehending conversations between Travellers, although this aspect is frequently over-emphasised. The exact number of native speakers is hard to determine due to sociolinguistic issues but Ethnologue puts the number of speakers at 30,000 in UK, 6,000 in Ireland, and 50,000 in the US. The figure for at least the UK is dated to 1990; it is not clear if the other figures are from the same source.Linguistically Shelta is today seen as a mixed language that stems from a community of travelling people in Ireland that was originally predominantly Irish-speaking. The community later went through a period of widespread bilingualism that resulted in a language based heavily on Hiberno-English with he |