- Source: Scottish Cant
Scottish Cant (often called Scots-Romani or Scotch-Romani) is a cant spoken by Scottish Travellers and Scottish Lowland Roma, primarily in the Scottish Lowlands.
Classification
Up to 50% of Scottish Cant originates from Romani-derived lexicon.
The Scottish Gaelic element in the dialects of 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Scottish Cant uses numerous terms derived from Scots which are no longer current in Modern Scots as spoken by non-Travellers, such as mowdit "buried", mools "earth", both from muild(s), and gellie, from gailey (galley), "a bothy".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")
shain "bad" (Gaelic sean "old")
Romani influences
The percentage of Romani lexical vocabulary is said to be up to 50% of the lexicon; some examples are:
gadgie "man" (Romani gadžó "a non-Romani person")
pannie "water" (Romani paní)
Recordings
Hamish Henderson and other folklorists recorded various conversations about the Scottish Cant language, with speakers including Lizzie Higgins and Jeannie Robertson. He also recorded Belle Stewart singing a version of "Dance to Your Daddy" in both Cant and Scots.
See also
Angloromani language
Beurla Reagaird
Shelta
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- William Maitland dari Lethington
- Can't Stop the Feeling!
- 7 Rings
- Scottish Cant
- Cant (language)
- Cant
- Scottish Romani and Traveller groups
- Brian Cant
- Para-Romani
- Welsh Romani language
- Beurla Reagaird
- TRL
- Itinerant groups in Europe
The Water Horse (2007)
It Be an Evil Moon (2023)
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