• Shelta (/ˈʃɛltə/; Irish: Seiltis) is a language spoken by Irish Travellers (Mincéirí), particularly in Ireland and the United Kingdom. It is widely known...
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    lucht siúil, meaning the walking people), also known as Pavees or Mincéirs (Shelta: Mincéirí), are a traditionally peripatetic indigenous ethno-cultural group...
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    Irish speakers and Shelta by the linguistic community. It is a mixture of English and Irish, with Irish being the lexifier language. Shelta is a secret language...
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    Shelta Cave is a 2,500-foot-long (760 m) cave and lake located in Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama, United States. It is described as one of the most...
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    cave shrimp is only known from five caves, all in Madison County, Alabama. Shelta Cave is the species' type locality, but viable populations have only been...
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    particularly deriving from Asia and Eastern Europe. Also native to Ireland are Shelta, the language of the nomadic Irish Travellers, Irish Sign Language, and...
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    spoken on a day-to-day basis. Other languages spoken in Ireland include Shelta, spoken by Irish Travellers, and a dialect of Scots is spoken by some Ulster...
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    of Tralee Samhain / Halloween Wren Day Languages Hiberno-English Irish Shelta Ulster Scots Literature Annals Fiction Gaeilge Poetry Theatre Triads Music...
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  • Béarla na Saor 'speech of the smiths'). Bungi dialect Polari Scottish Cant Shelta Evans, S. Stopping Places – A Gipsy History of South London and Kent (1999)...
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  • United Kingdom New Zealanders (in Australia) Welsh people (in the UK) Shelta Ireland Irish Travellers Derived from siúilta, which means "The Walkers"...
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    Tyrsenian) Tartessian? (possibly Paleo-Hispanic) Mixed Beurla Reagaird Shelta Celtic-speaking areas Lower Brittany (Brittany) Y Wladfa (Chubut Province...
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  • community know it as Gammon, while the linguistic community identifies it as shelta. Outside Gaelic circles, the derivation is typically seen to be from Latin...
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  • Travellers Scottish Cant, a language of the Scottish Lowland Travellers Shelta or the Cant, a language of the Irish Travellers Thieves' cant, a language...
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  • of Northern Ireland, an overview of languages spoken in Northern Ireland Shelta, a mixed English/Irish cant spoken by Irish Travellers This disambiguation...
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    Orconectes sheltae, the Shelta Cave crayfish, is a small, freshwater crayfish endemic to Alabama in the United States. It is a cave-dwelling species known...
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    meaning literally "the walking people". The language of the Irish Travellers, Shelta, is mainly based on an Irish lexicon and an English grammar. There are two...
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    Manx Welsh Romance Auregnais French Guernésiais Jèrriais Sercquiais Other British Sign Language Irish Sign Language Northern Ireland Sign Language Shelta...
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    Cornish Guernésiais Irish Irish Sign Jèrriais Llanito Manx Pitkern Sercquiais Shelta Turks and Caicos Creole Virgin Islands Creole Welsh Scots (including Ulster-Scots)...
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  • Riocontra (in Italian) Sananmuunnos (in Finnish) Šatrovački (in Serbo-Croatian) Shelta Totoiana (in Romanian) Tougo (in Japanese) Vesre (in Spanish) Lefkowitz...
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  • Goidelic influence, although they are not Goidelic languages themselves: Shelta language is sometimes thought to be a Goidelic language, but is in fact...
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    Guernésiais, Irish, Jèrriais, Manx, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Sercquiais, Shelta, Ulster-Scots, Welsh Additional information Time zone Greenwich Mean Time...
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  • and Protestantism Irish Travellers Indo-European → Irish and English → Shelta, Francosign → Irish Sign Ireland Significant populations in the United Kingdom...
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    Presbyterianism Methodism Latter-day Saints Judaism Islam Paganism Languages and dialects Irish Hiberno-English Ulster Scots Shelta History of Ireland v t e...
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    Islands are similar to French, a language also spoken there. A cant, called Shelta, is spoken by Irish Travellers, often to conceal meaning from those outside...
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  • and Vesre Mediterranean Lingua Franca Pajubá Julian and Sandy Rotwelsch Shelta Swardspeak, argot used by LGBT people in the Philippines Verlan Lubunca...
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    Abandoned Premonitions (2022) LARGO 22 (2022) Eulogy to Christa (2022) SHELTA (2023) Front Line Assembly – Wake Up the Coma (2019) Paul Barker – Fix This...
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    million speakers by 2010. Beurla Reagaird, Highland travellers' language Shelta, based largely on Irish and Hiberno-English (some 86,000 speakers in 2009)...
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    a Gaelic-based cant of the Scottish travelling community related to the Shelta of Ireland. The majority of the vocabulary of modern Scottish Gaelic is...
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  • game Lavender linguistics Lunfardo Meme Nadsat Pig Latin Polari Rotwelsch Shelta Thieves' cant Verlan It is often difficult to collect etymologies for slang...
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