Scottish Cant
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| Scottish Cant | ||
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| Spoken in | United Kingdom | |
| Region | Scotland | |
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| Language family | Indo-European
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| Official status | ||
| Official language in | None | |
| Regulated by | None | |
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| ISO 639-1 | None | |
| ISO 639-2 | ||
| ISO 639-3 | trl | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Scottish Cant (often simply Cant) is a cant spoken in Scotland by Scottish Travellers.
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Classification
Although a certain amount of Romani words have entered Scottish Cant through intermarriage with British Romanis, Scottish Travellers are an autochthonous group of travelling people and not to be confused with British New Age Travellers. Scottish Cant essentially remains a Germanic language. The Goidelic (Irish and Gaelic) element in Scottish Cant is put anywhere between 0.8% and 20%.
Use of archaic Scots
Scottish Cant uses numerous terms derived from Scots which are no longer current in Modern Scots as spoken by non-Travellers, such as mowdit "buried", mools "earth", both from muild(s), and gellie, from gailey (galley), "a bothy".
Gaelic influences
Loans from Gaelic include words like:
- cluishes "ears" (Gaelic cluasan or cluais, a dative form of cluas "ear")
- shan "bad" (Gaelic sean "old")
Romani influences
There are Romani loans such as and the percentage of Romani lexial borrowings is said to be up to 20% of the lexicon; some examples are:
- gadgie "man" (Romani gadžó "a non-Romani person")
- pannie "water" (Romani paní)
References
- ^ a b c d e f Kirk, J. & Ó Baoill, D. Travellers and their Language (2002) Queen's University Belfast ISBN 0-85389-832-4
See also
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