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Encyclopedia: Shelta
Shelta (also known as Gammen, Sheldru, Pavee, or simply "The Cant") is a language spoken by the Irish Traveller people. It was often used to conceal meaning from those outside the group. The language ...
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Shelta is defined here as the language originally used by Irish Travellers in America around 1875 A.D. and its words are printed in italics when used anywhere in this web site.
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Compilers for the Shelta language at Cat's Eye Technologies Shelta is a minimalist language with barely any semantics; it relies on inline machine code to be considered anywhere near Turing-Complete. In the spirit of compilers for languages such as FALSE and Brainfuck, a Shelta-to-8086 compiler has been written in less...
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2iota 0.8 2004.0423 Interpreter for the 2Iota language bsdl c eso lang emmental 1.0 2007.1111 Interpeter and docs for the Emmental language bsdl eso hs lang refl shelta 1.1 2009.0307 Compilers for the Shelta language asm eso lang boot x86...
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Although heavily influenced by non-Celtic languages, Shelta is sometimes mistakenly classified as part of the Goidelic branch of the Celtic language family;
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THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF SHELTA The 86,000 or so Irish Travellers throughout the world -- in Britain, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada -- share a common language called Shelta, also known as Gammon or The Cant, which is based in part on Gaelic.
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Could the Shelta language be considered a dialect of the Irish language? I've already seen articles about the Shelta language.
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Links related to Shelta language in sister projects at Wikimedia Commons This is the main category of the Shelta language, part of unknown family.
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Ethnologue 14 and bibliography information on SHELTA. The following is the entry for this language as it appeared in the 14th edition (2000). It was superseded by the corresponding entry in the 15th edition (2005). See also the corresponding entry in the current edition of Ethnologue. SHELTA: a language of Ireland...
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Language Family Index Ethnologue > Web version > Shelta entry > Linguistic lineage Mixed language (23)
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