Book wanted: _The Cant Languages of Europe_

[Robin Hamilton]

Thanks, Stephen, sounds well worth a look.

Robin

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> abebooks.com  lists something I don't find on worldcat:
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> 9781156416877
> Cant Languages: Polari, Argot, List of Chicano Caló Words and Expressions,
> Shelta, Caló, Caló, Lunfardo, Thieves' Cant, Satrovacki, Rotwelsch
> ISBN 10: 1156416876 / 1-156-41687-6
> ISBN 13: 9781156416877
> Publisher: Books LLC
> Publication Date: 2010-05-20
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> Stephen
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> Does anyone know if such a thing as the above book, or anything like it,
> exists?
>
> It would be similar to texts dealing with Pidgins and Creoles, and have an
> introductory chapter on cant, possibly drawing on M.A.K.Halliday's 1976
> article, "Anti-languages", followed by chapters on Rotwelsch, Germania,
> Shelta, Peddler's French, etc., possibly with a separate section on the
> various European non-inflectional varieties of Romani.
>
> Failing that, is there a central web resource that draws these things
> together?
>
> It's possible to make a start piecing together links via Wikipedia, but
> that
> work seems more than usually curate's eggish when it comes to this area.
> (The article on [English] "Thieves' cant", for instance, is more than a
> little off the wall, though whoever wrote it has at least come across the
> Winchester Confessions of 1615-1616, which still isn't that generally
> noticed.)
>
> Robin

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