Cant (language), the Glossary
A cant is the jargon or language of a group, often employed to exclude or mislead people outside the group.[1]
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166 relations: A Clockwork Orange (novel), Actor, Adam Podgórecki, Adurgari, Afghanistan, Agbirigba, Anthony Burgess, Anti-society, Argentina, Asturias, Auction, Äynu language, Šatrovački, Back slang, Bangime language, Banjački, Barallete, Bargoens, Beurla Reagaird, Boontling, Brazil, Bron (cant), Bulgaria, Caló (Chicano), China, Code talker, Code word (figure of speech), Colloquialism, Connacht, Costermonger, Creole language, Denmark, Dialect, Doublespeak, Eastern Europe, Emo, Engsh, Fair, Fenya, France, French language, Gacería, Galicia (Spain), Gayle language, Gender transposition, Germanía, Germany, Gibberish (game), Greece, Greek language, ... Expand index (116 more) »
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A Clockwork Orange (novel)
A Clockwork Orange is a dystopian satirical black comedy novella by English writer Anthony Burgess, published in 1962.
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Actor
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a production.
Adam Podgórecki
Adam Podgórecki (1925–1998) was a sociologist and one of the founders of the Research Committee on Sociology of Law.
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Adurgari
Ādurgari is a secret language of the nomadic Shaikh Mohammadi group of peddlers of east Afghanistan, used especially in the presence of outsiders. Cant (language) and Adurgari are cant languages.
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Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.
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Agbirigba
Agbirigba is a cant (or argot) based on the Ogbakiri dialect of the Nigerian language Ikwerre of Port Harcourt. Cant (language) and Agbirigba are cant languages.
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Anthony Burgess
John Anthony Burgess Wilson, (25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993) who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was a British writer and composer.
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Anti-society
An anti-society is a small, separate community intentionally created within a larger society as an alternative to or resistance of it.
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Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.
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Asturias
Asturias (Asturies) officially the Principality of Asturias, (Principado de Asturias; Principáu d'Asturies; Galician–Asturian: Principao d'Asturias) is an autonomous community in northwest Spain.
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Auction
An auction is usually a process of buying and selling goods or services by offering them up for bids, taking bids, and then selling the item to the highest bidder or buying the item from the lowest bidder.
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Äynu language
Äynu (also known as Abdal) is a Turkic cryptolect spoken in Western China. Cant (language) and Äynu language are cant languages.
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Šatrovački
Šatrovački (Serbian Cyrillic: шатровачки) or šatra (Serbian Cyrillic: шатра) is an argot within the Bosnian-Serbo-Croatian language. Cant (language) and Šatrovački are cant languages and slang.
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Back slang
Back slang is an English coded language in which the written word is spoken phonetically backwards.
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Bangime language
Bangime (bàŋɡí–mɛ̀, or, in full, Bàŋgɛ́rí-mɛ̀) is a language isolate spoken by 3,500 ethnic Dogon in seven villages in southern Mali, who call themselves the bàŋɡá–ndɛ̀ ("hidden people").
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Banjački
Banjački is a secret language used by bricklayers from Podrinje region (eastern Bosnia and western Serbia).
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Barallete
Barallete is a largely vanished argot which used to be employed by the traditional knife-sharpeners and umbrella-repairers (afiadores e paragüeiros) of the Galician province of Ourense, in Spain. Cant (language) and Barallete are cant languages.
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Bargoens
Bargoens is a form of Dutch slang. Cant (language) and Bargoens are cant languages.
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Beurla Reagaird
Beurla Reagaird (previously also spelled Beurla Reagair or Beurla-reagaird) is a nearly extinct, Scottish Gaelic-based cant used by the indigenous Traveller community of the Highlands of Scotland, formerly often referred to by the disparaging name "tinkers". Cant (language) and Beurla Reagaird are cant languages.
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Boontling
Boontling is a jargon or argot spoken only in Boonville, California.
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Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.
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Bron (cant)
Bron is an argot (a cant) spoken by itinerant coppersmiths and tinkers in Miranda, Avilés, Asturias, Spain, as well as textile merchants in Fornela, León, Spain (where it is known as burón) and Cantal, Auvergne, France (where it is known as "broum" or "brount"). Cant (language) and Bron (cant) are cant languages.
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Bulgaria
Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located west of the Black Sea and south of the Danube river, Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey to the south, Serbia and North Macedonia to the west, and Romania to the north. It covers a territory of and is the 16th largest country in Europe.
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Caló (Chicano)
Caló (also known as Pachuco) is an argot or slang of Mexican Spanish that originated during the first half of the 20th century in the Southwestern United States. Cant (language) and Caló (Chicano) are cant languages.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
Code talker
A code talker was a person employed by the military during wartime to use a little-known language as a means of secret communication.
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Code word (figure of speech)
A code word is a word or a phrase designed to convey a predetermined meaning to an audience who know the phrase, while remaining inconspicuous to the uninitiated.
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Colloquialism
Colloquialism (also called colloquial language, everyday language, or general parlance) is the linguistic style used for casual (informal) communication. Cant (language) and Colloquialism are language varieties and styles.
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Connacht
Connacht or Connaught (Connachta or Cúige Chonnacht), is one of the four provinces of Ireland, in the west of Ireland.
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Costermonger
A costermonger, coster, or costard is a street seller of fruit and vegetables in British towns.
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Creole language
A creole language, or simply creole, is a stable natural language that develops from the process of different languages simplifying and mixing into a new form (often a pidgin), and then that form expanding and elaborating into a full-fledged language with native speakers, all within a fairly brief period. Cant (language) and creole language are linguistics terminology.
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Denmark
Denmark (Danmark) is a Nordic country in the south-central portion of Northern Europe.
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Dialect
Dialect (from Latin,, from the Ancient Greek word, 'discourse', from, 'through' and, 'I speak') refers to two distinctly different types of linguistic relationships. Cant (language) and Dialect are language varieties and styles and linguistics terminology.
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Doublespeak
Doublespeak is language that deliberately obscures, disguises, distorts, or reverses the meaning of words.
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Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is a subregion of the European continent.
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Emo
Emo is a music genre characterized by emotional, often confessional lyrics.
Engsh
Engsh is a cant that originated in Nairobi, Kenya in the 1980s. Cant (language) and Engsh are cant languages.
Fair
A fair (archaic: faire or fayre) is a gathering of people for a variety of entertainment or commercial activities.
Fenya
Fenya (p) or fen'ka (p) is a Russian cant language originated among the travelling peddlers and currently used in the Russian criminal underworld and among former detainees of Russian penal establishments ("prison slang"). Cant (language) and Fenya are cant languages.
France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
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French language
French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.
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Gacería
Sepúlveda, with recognition extinct at least during the 16th century Gacería is the name of a slang or argot employed by the trilleros (or makers of the trillo, or threshing-board, as well as threshing-sledge) and the briqueros (or makers of brica: metathesis of Spanish word criba sieve) in the village of Cantalejo, in the Spanish province of Segovia. Cant (language) and Gacería are cant languages.
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Galicia (Spain)
Galicia (Galicia (officially) or Galiza; Galicia) is an autonomous community of Spain and historic nationality under Spanish law.
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Gayle language
Gayle, or Gail, is an English- and Afrikaans-based gay argot or slang used primarily by English and Afrikaans-speaking homosexual men in urban communities of South Africa, and is similar in some respects to Polari in the United Kingdom, from which some lexical items have been borrowed.
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Gender transposition
Gender transposition is a term in linguistics to describe the substitution of a gendered personal pronoun for the other gendered form.
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Germanía
Germanía is the Spanish term for the argot used by criminals or in jails in Spain during 16th and 17th centuries. Cant (language) and Germanía are cant languages.
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Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
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Gibberish (game)
Gibberish (sometimes Jibberish or Geta) is a language game that is played in the United States and Canada by adding "idig" to the beginning of each syllable of spoken words.
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Greece
Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe.
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Greek language
Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.
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Grypsera
Grypsera (from Low German Grips meaning "intelligence", "cleverness"; also drugie życie, literally "second life" in Polish) is a distinct nonstandard dialect or prison slang of the Polish language, used traditionally by recidivist prison inmates. Cant (language) and Grypsera are cant languages.
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Gumuțeasca
Gumuțeasca or Gomuțeasca (sometimes referred to as limba gumuțească, "Gumutseascan language", or limba de sticlă, "the glass language") is an argot (a speech form spoken by a group of people to prevent outsiders from understanding them) used exclusively in the commune of Mărgău in Cluj County, Romania. Cant (language) and gumuțeasca are cant languages.
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Gyaru-moji
or is a style of obfuscated (cant) Japanese writing popular amongst urban Japanese youth. Cant (language) and Gyaru-moji are cant languages.
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HarperCollins
HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British-American publishing company that is considered to be one of the "Big Five" English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, Macmillan, and Simon & Schuster.
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Hijra (South Asia)
In the Indian subcontinent, hijra are transgender, intersex, or eunuch people who live in communities that follow a kinship system known as guru-chela system.
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Hijra Farsi
Hijra Farsi is a secret language spoken by South-Asian Hijra and Kothi (also Koti) communities.
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Hipster (contemporary subculture)
The 21st-century hipster is a subculture (sometimes called hipsterism).
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
Ireland
Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe.
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Irish language
Irish (Standard Irish: Gaeilge), also known as Irish Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Insular Celtic branch of the Celtic language group, which is a part of the Indo-European language family.
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Irish Travellers
Irish Travellers (an lucht siúil, meaning the walking people), also known as Pavees or Mincéirs (Shelta: Mincéirí), are a traditionally peripatetic indigenous ethno-cultural group originating in Ireland.
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IsiNgqumo
IsiNgqumo, or IsiGqumo, (literally "decisions" in the language itself) is an argot used by homosexuals of South Africa and Zimbabwe who speak Bantu languages, as opposed to Gayle, a language used by the homosexuals of South Africa who speak Germanic languages.
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Itinerant groups in Europe
There are a number of traditionally itinerant or travelling groups in Europe who are known as Travellers or Gypsies (the latter being increasingly taken as derogatory).
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Iyaric
Iyaric, also called Dread Talk or Rasta Talk, is a form of language constructed by members of the Rastafari movement through alteration of vocabulary.
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Jamaica
Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At, it is the third largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and south-east of the Cayman Islands (a British Overseas Territory).
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Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.
Jargon
Jargon or technical language is the specialized terminology associated with a particular field or area of activity. Cant (language) and Jargon are language varieties and styles and linguistics terminology.
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Javanais
Javanais is a type of French slang where the extra syllable is infixed inside a word after every consonant that is followed by a vowel, in order to render it incomprehensible. Cant (language) and Javanais are cant languages.
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Jejemon
Jejemon is a popular culture phenomenon in the Philippines.
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Jeringonza
Jeringonza is a Spanish language game played by children in Spain and all over Hispanic America.
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Joual
Joual is an accepted name for the linguistic features of Quebec French that are associated with the French-speaking working class in Montreal which has become a symbol of national identity for some. Cant (language) and Joual are language varieties and styles and slang.
Kaliarda
Kaliardà (Greek: Καλιαρντά) is a cant developed by LGBT speakers of Modern Greek in Greece.
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Kenya
Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya (Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa.
Klezmer-loshn
Klezmer-loshn (קלעזמער-לשון klezmer-loshn, Yiddish for Musician's Tongue) is an extinct derivative of the Yiddish language.
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Korea
Korea (translit in South Korea, or label in North Korea) is a peninsular region in East Asia consisting of the Korean Peninsula (label in South Korea, or label in North Korea), Jeju Island, and smaller islands.
Korean ginseng-harvester's cant
Korean ginseng-harvester's cant are a collection of cants that are widely used by ginseng-harvesters when harvesting and looking for ginseng.
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Kothi (gender)
In the Indian subcontinent, a kothi is a term for a man or boy who takes on an "effeminate" role in same-sex relationships, often with a desire to be the receptive partner in sexual intercourse.
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Lancaster University
Lancaster University (officially The University of Lancaster) is a public research university in Lancaster, Lancashire, England.
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Latín dos canteiros
Latín dos canteiros ("Latin of the stonecutters") or verbo dos arginas is an argot employed by stonecutters in Galicia, Spain, particularly in the area of Pontevedra, based on the Galician language. Cant (language) and Latín dos canteiros are cant languages.
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Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
Lazăr Șăineanu
Lazăr Șăineanu (also spelled Șeineanu, born Eliezer Schein;Leopold, p.383, 417 Francisized Lazare Sainéan,, Alexandru Mușina,, in România Literară, Nr. 19/2003 or Sainéanu; April 23, 1859 – May 11, 1934) was a United Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia-born philologist, linguist, folklorist and cultural historian.
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Lóxoro
Lóxoro or húngaroRojas-Berscia, L. M. (2016).
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León, Spain
León is a city and municipality of Spain, capital of the province of León, part of the autonomous community of Castile and León, in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula.
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Leet
Leet (or "1337"), also known as eleet or leetspeak, is a system of modified spellings used primarily on the Internet.
Les Misérables
Les Misérables is a French epic historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century.
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Lexicon
A lexicon (plural: lexicons, rarely lexica) is the vocabulary of a language or branch of knowledge (such as nautical or medical). Cant (language) and lexicon are linguistics terminology.
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Lingua franca
A lingua franca (for plurals see), also known as a bridge language, common language, trade language, auxiliary language, vehicular language, or link language, is a language systematically used to make communication possible between groups of people who do not share a native language or dialect, particularly when it is a third language that is distinct from both of the speakers' native languages.
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Linguistic description
In the study of language, description or descriptive linguistics is the work of objectively analyzing and describing how language is actually used (or how it was used in the past) by a speech community.
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List of CB slang
CB slang is the distinctive anti-language, argot, or cant which developed among users of Citizens Band radio (CB), especially truck drivers in the United States during the 1970s and early 1980s.
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London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
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Louchébem
Louchébem or loucherbem is Parisian and Lyonnaise butchers' (French boucher) slang, similar to Pig Latin and Verlan. Cant (language) and Louchébem are cant languages.
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Lubunca
Lubunca, Labunca or Lubunyaca is a secret Turkish cant and slang used by sex workers and LGBT community in Turkey.
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Lunfardo
Lunfardo (from the Italian lombardo or inhabitant of Lombardy, lumbard in Lombard) is an argot originated and developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in the lower classes in the Río de la Plata region (encompassing the port cities of Buenos Aires and Montevideo) and from there spread to other urban areas nearby, such as the Greater Buenos Aires, Santa Fe and Rosario. Cant (language) and Lunfardo are cant languages.
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Martian language
Martian language, sometimes also called brain-disabled characters, is the nickname of unconventional representation of Chinese characters online by various methods.
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Meshterski
Meshterski (мещерски) or Meshtrenski (мещренски) was a cant, or secret sociolect, of the south Bulgarian builders, bricklayers and masons. Cant (language) and Meshterski are cant languages.
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Metathesis (from Greek, from "I put in a different order"; Latin: transpositio) is the transposition of sounds or syllables in a word or of words in a sentence.
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Michael Halliday
Michael Alexander Kirkwood Halliday (often M. A. K. Halliday; 13 April 1925 – 15 April 2018) was a British linguist who developed the internationally influential systemic functional linguistics (SFL) model of language.
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Microculture
Microculture refers to the specialised subgroups, marked with their own languages, ethos and rule expectations, that permeate differentiated industrial societies.
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Miguxês
Miguxês, also known in Portugal as pita talk or pita script (pronounced), is an Internet slang of the Portuguese language that was popular in the 2000's and early 2010's among Brazilian teenagers on the Internet and other electronic media, such as messages written on cell phones. Cant (language) and Miguxês are cant languages.
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Minde, Portugal
Minde (Ninhou in the Minderico language) is a town and freguesia (civil parish) of Alcanena Municipality, in the District of Santarém, in Portugal.
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Minderico language
Minderico, also known as Piação do Ninhou (the language of Minde), was originally a sociolect or a secret language spoken by textile producers and traders in the freguesia (civil parish) of Minde (Alcanena, Portugal). Cant (language) and Minderico language are cant languages.
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Nadsat
Nadsat is a fictional register or argot used by the teenage gang members in Anthony Burgess's dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange.
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Naked Lunch
Naked Lunch (first published as The Naked Lunch) is a 1959 novel by American Beat generation writer William S. Burroughs.
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Netherlands
The Netherlands, informally Holland, is a country located in Northwestern Europe with overseas territories in the Caribbean.
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Nigeria
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa.
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Nihali language
Nihali, also known as Nahali or erroneously as Kalto, is an endangered language isolate that is spoken in west-central India (in Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra), with approximately 2,000 people in 1991 out of an ethnic population of 5,000.
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Nyōbō kotoba
was a cant that was originally used by Japanese court ladies during the Muromachi era, and subsequently spread and came to be thought of as a general women's language. Cant (language) and Nyōbō kotoba are cant languages.
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Obfuscation
Obfuscation is the obscuring of the intended meaning of communication by making the message difficult to understand, usually with confusing and ambiguous language.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Padonkaffsky jargon
Padonkaffsky jargon (yazyk padonkaff), also known as Olbanian (label), is a slang developed by a Runet subculture called padonki (label).
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Pajubá
Pajubá, or Bajubá, is a Brazilian cryptolect which inserts numerous words and expressions from West African languages into the Portuguese language.
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Patois
Patois (pl. same or) is speech or language that is considered nonstandard, although the term is not formally defined in linguistics. Cant (language) and Patois are language varieties and styles and linguistics terminology.
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Philippines
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.
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Physician
A physician, medical practitioner (British English), medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments.
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Pig Latin
Pig Latin is a language game, argot, or cant in which words in English are altered, usually by adding a fabricated suffix or by moving the onset or initial consonant or consonant cluster of a word to the end of the word and adding a vocalic syllable (usually -ay or /eɪ/) to create such a suffix. Cant (language) and Pig Latin are cant languages.
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Pitkern
Pitkern, also known as Pitcairn-Norfolk or Pitcairnese, is a language spoken on Pitcairn and Norfolk islands. Cant (language) and Pitkern are cant languages.
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Podaná
Podaná (ποδανά) is a Greek argot based on rearranging syllables, similar to Verlan and Vesre. Cant (language) and Podaná are cant languages.
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Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.
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Polari
Polari is a form of slang or cant historically used in Britain by some actors, circus and fairground showmen, professional wrestlers, merchant navy sailors, criminals and sex workers, and particularly among the gay subculture.
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Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe, whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira.
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Quebec French
Quebec French (français québécois), also known as Québécois French, is the predominant variety of the French language spoken in Canada.
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Queen's University Belfast
The Queen's University of Belfast, commonly known as Queen's University Belfast (Ollscoil na Banríona; abbreviated Queen's or QUB), is a public research university in Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
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Rastafari
Rastafari, sometimes called Rastafarianism, is an Abrahamic religion that developed in Jamaica during the 1930s.
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Rhyming slang
Rhyming slang is a form of slang word construction in the English language.
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Richard Rorty
Richard McKay Rorty (October 4, 1931 – June 8, 2007) was an American philosopher.
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Romani language
Romani (also Romany, Romanes, Roma; rromani ćhib) is an Indo-Aryan macrolanguage of the Romani communities.
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Romania
Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeast Europe.
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Rotvælsk
Rotvælsk was a secret language (also known as a cant or cryptolect) that was spoken in Denmark from early modern times until the turn of the 20th century. Cant (language) and Rotvælsk are cant languages.
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Rotwelsch
Rotwelsch ("beggar's foreign (language)") or Gaunersprache ("crook's language") also Khokhmer Loshn (from Yiddish "חוכמער לשון", "tongue of the wise") is a secret language, a cant or thieves' argot, spoken by groups (primarily marginalized groups) in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Bohemia. Cant (language) and Rotwelsch are cant languages.
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Runet
The Russian Internet (русский Интернет) or Runet (Рунет), is the part of the Internet that uses the Russian language, including the Russian-language community on the Internet and websites.
Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.
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Salford
Salford is a cathedral city in Greater Manchester, England.
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Scotland
Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.
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Scots language
ScotsThe endonym for Scots is Scots.
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Scottish Cant
Scottish Cant (often called Scots-Romani or Scotch-Romani) is a cant spoken by Scottish Travellers and Scottish Lowland Roma, primarily in the Scottish Lowlands. Cant (language) and Scottish Cant are cant languages.
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Scottish Gaelic
Scottish Gaelic (endonym: Gàidhlig), also known as Scots Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family) native to the Gaels of Scotland.
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Serbia
Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Southeast and Central Europe, located in the Balkans and the Pannonian Plain.
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Shelta
Shelta (Irish: Seiltis) is a language spoken by Irish Travellers (Mincéirí), particularly in Ireland and the United Kingdom. Cant (language) and Shelta are cant languages.
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Sheng slang
Sheng is primarily a Swahili and 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. Cant (language) and Sheng slang are cant languages.
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Shibboleth
A shibboleth (šībbōleṯ) is any custom or tradition, usually a choice of phrasing or even a single word, that distinguishes one group of people from another. Cant (language) and shibboleth are shibboleths.
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Slang
A slang is a vocabulary (words, phrases, and linguistic usages) of an informal register, common in everyday conversation but avoided in formal writing. Cant (language) and slang are language varieties and styles and linguistics terminology.
Sociolect
In sociolinguistics, a sociolect is a form of language (non-standard dialect, restricted register) or a set of lexical items used by a socioeconomic class, profession, age group, or other social group. Cant (language) and sociolect are language varieties and styles and linguistics terminology.
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Sociology
Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life.
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South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.
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Spain
Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.
Spasell
Spasell is a slang of Insubric language, spoken until the 19th century by inhabitants of Vallassina, when they used to go out from the valley for business and they didn't want to be understood by the people. Cant (language) and Spasell are cant languages.
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Suffix
In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Cant (language) and suffix are linguistics terminology.
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Swardspeak
Swardspeak (also known as gayspeak or "gay lingo") is an argot or cant slang derived from Taglish (Tagalog-English code-switching) and used by a number of LGBT people in the Philippines. Cant (language) and Swardspeak are cant languages.
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Synonym
A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language.
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Tailor
A tailor is a person who makes or alters clothing, particularly in men's clothing.
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Thieves' cant
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, and hustlers of various kinds in Great Britain and to a lesser extent in other English-speaking countries. Cant (language) and thieves' cant are cant languages.
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Totoiana
Totoiana ("Totoian"), also known as the "Totoian language" (Limba totoiană) or the "inverted language" (Limba întoarsă), is a speech form used in the village of Totoi in Alba County, Romania. Cant (language) and totoiana are cant languages.
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Tsotsitaal and Camtho
Tsotsitaal is a South African vernacular dialect derived from a variety of mixed languages mainly spoken in the townships of Gauteng province (such as Soweto, Soshanguve, Tembisa), but also in other agglomerations all over South Africa. Cant (language) and Tsotsitaal and Camtho are cant languages.
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Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.
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Tutnese
Tutnese (also known as Tut) is an argot created by enslaved African Americans based on African-American Vernacular English as a method to covertly teach and learn spelling and reading.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
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Uruguay
Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay (República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in South America.
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Variety (linguistics)
In sociolinguistics, a variety, also known as a lect or an isolect, is a specific form of a language or language cluster. Cant (language) and variety (linguistics) are language varieties and styles and linguistics terminology.
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Verlan
Verlan is a type of argot in the French language, featuring inversion of syllables in a word, and is common in slang and youth language. Cant (language) and Verlan are cant languages.
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Vernacular
Vernacular is the ordinary, informal, spoken form of language, particularly when perceived as being of lower social status in contrast to standard language, which is more codified, institutional, literary, or formal. Cant (language) and Vernacular are language varieties and styles and linguistics terminology.
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Victor Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885), sometimes nicknamed the Ocean Man, was a French Romantic writer and politician.
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William S. Burroughs
William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist.
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Word sense
In linguistics, a word sense is one of the meanings of a word.
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Xíriga
Xíriga is an occupation-related cant on Asturian developed by the tejeros of Llanes and Ribadesella in Asturias. Cant (language) and Xíriga are cant languages.
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Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia (Југославија; Jugoslavija; Југославија) was a country in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 to 1992.
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Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe, relief map Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia to the north, and Mozambique to the east.
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See also
Shibboleths
- American English regional vocabulary
- Bernese German
- Cant (language)
- List of shibboleths
- Loch
- Parsley massacre
- Perception of English /r/ and /l/ by Japanese speakers
- Regional accents of English
- Shahada
- Shibboleth
- Sicilian Vespers
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cant_(language)
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