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What does Shelta mean?

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  1. (Ireland) A language spoken by some Irish Travellers, particularly in Ireland, but also in Britain, which has been heavily influenced by English and Irish and is now effectively a cant or creole, though some scholars think it may have originated as and may retain elements of a non-Irish, non-English language.
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Other languages spoken in Ireland include Shelta, spoken by Irish Travellers, and a dialect of Scots is spoken by some Ulster Scots people in Donegal.
A cant, called Shelta, is spoken by Irish Travellers, often as a means to conceal meaning from those outside the group.
Our informant could give only a single specimen of the Shelta literature.
American Travellers' Cant was originally also Shelta but is now largely Anglicized.
I did so myself when I recorded the Traveller language, called Shelta by many academics and Cant by most Travellers.
This language, or jargon, known as Shelta, has been the subject of much learned writing.

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