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. |