Rogue language
A crooks language is a special language that is used as a secret language among crooks and vagabonds or in similar marginalized groups . A rogue language differs significantly in vocabulary from the standard language on which it is based. Rotwelsche is the German rogue language .
Rogue languages
Europe, in the context of Romance languages
- based on French : Argot , Javanais , Louchébem , Verlan
- based on Spanish : Gacería , Germanía
- based on other Iberoromanic languages : Barallete and Fala dos arxinas (base: Galician ), Bron (base: Leonese and Asturian ), Xíriga (base: Asturian)
Europe, in the environment of Germanic languages
- based on German : Rotwelsch , Henese Fleck
- based on English : Cant , Polari
- based on Yiddish : Klezmer-loshn
- based on Dutch : Bargoens
Europe, around Slavic languages
- based on Bulgarian : Meshterski
- based on Polish : Grypsera
- based on Russian : Fenya
- based on Serbian : Banjački
South America
- Lunfardo based on Spanish (in Argentina and Uruguay)
Africa
- Camfranglais based on French (in Cameroon)
literature
- Language taboo - On the linguistics of the unspeakable, Wolfgang Schulze - Summer semester 2009 - 9th session Language taboo and special languages, (Leibniz Computing Center of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences) (PDF; 250 kB)
- Rotwelsch in contemporary German - Inauguraldissertartion Jasmina Čirkić; Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz; 2006 (PDF; 2.5 MB)
Individual evidence
- ^ Duden online: crooks language