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[gothwalk]

Quick links here to something that came up in a conversation at work - the language of the Irish Travellers, variously called the Cant, the Gammon, Shelta, or Pavee. This was spoken to some degree in my hometown of Bunclody, too, as evidenced by the second link below.

Shelta
Sally Connors speaks the Gammon

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[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

That's bizarre. :)

It's pretty mixed with English in Bunclody, too - we never knew how to form full sentences, most of us, so we just mixed in bits and pieces and words. Munya. Deist. Byore. Fien. Rulya.

[bardiphouka.livejournal.com]

From what I understand many of the travellers who emigrated to the US ended up living together in Arkansas, a rather remote area (esp at the time). I am not sure if it is still true, but at one point they are said to have had their own school system,parishes etc.