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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, although this aspect is frequently over-emphasized.
The exact number of native speakers is hard to determine due to sociolinguistic issues but Ethnologue puts the number of speakers
in Ireland at 6,000, and 86,000 worldwide. Linguistically Shelta is today seen as a creole language that stems from a community
of travelling people in Ireland that was originally predominantly Irish Gaelic speaking. The community later went through
a period of widespread bilingualism that resulted in a language based heavily on Hiberno-English with heavy influences from
Irish and Gaelic. As different varieties of Shelta display different degrees of anglicization (see below), it is hard to determine
the extent of the Irish/Gaelic substratum but the Oxford Companion to the English Language puts it as 2,000–3,000 words. |
Names (more)[de] Shelta[en] Shelta [eu] Shelta [fi] Shelta [fr] Shelta [gd] Seulra [ga] An tSeiltis [gl] Shelta [gv] Sheltish [he] שלטה [ko] 셸타어 [nl] Shelta [no] Shelta [pl] Język shelta [pt] Língua shelta [ru] Шелта [es] Shelta [zh] 雪爾塔語 |
Language type : Living
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ISO 639 CodesISO 639-3 : sthLinked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/sthhttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:sth More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: sthFreebase ISO 639-3 : sth GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |