• A cant is the jargon or language of a group, often employed to exclude or mislead people outside the group. It may also be called a cryptolect, argot,...
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    Thieves' cant (also known as thieves' argot, rogues' cant, or peddler's French) is a cant, cryptolect, or argot which was formerly used by thieves, beggars...
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  • cant in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cant, CANT, canting, or canted may refer to: Cant (language), a secret language Beurla Reagaird, a language of...
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  • Secret language may refer to: Cant (language), also known as cryptolect, the jargon or argot of a group, often employed to exclude or mislead people outside...
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  • A language game (also called a cant, secret language, ludling, or argot) is a system of manipulating spoken words to render them incomprehensible to an...
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  • a list of pidgins, creoles, mixed languages and cants that are based or partially based on Indo-European languages. Robacian Europe Solombala English...
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  • version of "Dance to Your Daddy" in both Cant and Scots. Angloromani language Beurla Reagaird Shelta Scottish Cant at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Kirk, J...
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    Idiolect Cant (language) ISO, SIL, and BCP language codes for constructed languages Language construction Artificial script Langmaker Language Construction...
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  • Shelta (redirect from Shelta language)
    Seiltis) is a language spoken by Irish Travellers (Mincéirí), particularly in Ireland and the United Kingdom. It is widely known as the Cant, to its native...
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  • Bargoens (category Cant languages)
    pronunciation: [bɑrˈɣuns] ) is a form of Dutch slang. More specifically, it is a cant language that arose in the 17th century, and was used by criminals, tramps and...
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  • Fenya (category Cant languages)
    [ˈfʲenʲə]) or fen'ka (Russian: фенька, IPA: [ˈfʲenʲkə]) is a Russian cant language originated among the travelling peddlers and currently used in the Russian...
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  • Along with English, it is the co-official language of Norfolk Island. Norfuk has always been a linguistic cant. As travel to and from Norfolk Island becomes...
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  • Scottish Romani and Traveller groups (category Articles containing Scottish Gaelic-language text)
    Norway, Sweden, and Finland. They speak Scottish Cant (also known as Scots Romani) a para-Romani language-mix of Scots and Romani, similar to Angloromani...
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  • the word quincallería (ironmongery), from ironmongers who first used this cant as part of their trade. Because the men were frequently blamed for petty...
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    blocks resembling small cottages in their appearance; in the English cant language of Polari this became a double entendre by gay men referring to sexual...
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  • the most significant English-language slang dictionary until John Camden Hotten's 1859 A Dictionary of Modern Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words. In recent...
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    Itinerant groups in Europe (category CS1 Dutch-language sources (nl))
    often a blend of the regional settled language and Romani language, but sometimes a cant based on a regional language without Romani influence. As opposed...
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  • asteroid Finnia Wunram (born 1995), German swimmer Fenya, a Russian cant language, currently used in the Russian criminal underworld This disambiguation...
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  • Sheng slang (redirect from Sheng language)
    English-based cant, perhaps a mixed language or creole, originating among the urban youth of Nairobi, Kenya, and influenced by many of the languages spoken there...
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    with an addition of some proverbs, phrases, figurative speeches, &c. Cant (language) Coleman (2004): pp. 41–42. Coleman, Julie (2001). "Some of the sources...
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  • Pitkern (redirect from Pitcairnese language)
    Tahitian, and has been given many classifications by scholars, including cant, patois, and Atlantic creole. Although spoken on Pacific Ocean islands, it...
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  • together with the speech community, on its revitalization. Languages of Portugal Cant (language) Minderico at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)...
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  • Beurla Reagaird (category Cant languages)
    Beurla Reagair or Beurla-reagaird) is a nearly extinct, Scottish Gaelic-based cant used by the indigenous Traveller community of the Highlands of Scotland,...
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    Shibboleth (category Articles containing French-language text)
    in the Chicago area. Likewise, homosexuals in Britain might use the cant language Polari. Mark Twain used an explicit shibboleth to conceal a furtive...
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  • Pig Latin (redirect from Pig Latin language)
    Pig Latin (Igpay Atinlay) is a language game, argot, or cant in which words in English are altered, usually by adding a fabricated suffix or by moving...
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  • Rotwelsch (category Cant languages)
    secret language, a cant or thieves' argot, spoken by groups (primarily marginalized groups) in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Bohemia. The language is...
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  • slang terms on it. Language families and languages Demographics of Indonesia British slang Cant (language) Patois Argot Slang Language game Cantonese internet...
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  • Germanía (redirect from Germania (cant))
    significance of "thieves' Latin" or "thieves' cant," Christopher J. Pountain, A History of the Spanish Language Through Texts (Routledge, 2000), 159. Terry...
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  • Code word (figure of speech) (category Articles containing Latin-language text)
    needed] Cant (language) Code name Dog-whistle politics Doublespeak Euphemism Framing (social sciences) Glittering generality Loaded language Obfuscation...
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  • several languages spoken by gay communities: Swardspeak or Beki language, a cant slang used by gay communities in the Philippines Polari, cant slang used...
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