Amongst linguists, the name Shelta is the most commonly used term.

Although predominantly English speaking, some also use Shelta and other similar cants.

That dialect I spoke of, I think, is called Shelta.

Krush means "clear out; run away" in Shelta.

Within the diaspora, various sub-branches of Shelta exist.

The Shelta cave crayfish is endemic to the cave.

As a result, Shelta has a character very different from other Goidelic Celtic languages.

They also have their own language which strongly links in with their dialect/accent of English, see Shelta.

A cant, called Shelta, is a language spoken by Irish Travellers, often as a means to conceal meaning from those outside the group.

His interest in languages drew him to the study of Shelta, the secret language of the Irish Traveller people.

Cant, which derives from Irish Gaelic, is a combination of English and Shelta.

It is related to the Irish Traveller Shelta as a creol of the Goidelic language group.

She may also have spoken Shelta, the language of Irish Travellers, but it is unknown where or how she would have learned it.

Broadly speaking, Shelta can either be written following an Irish-type orthography or an English-type orthography.

The title of this episode, Graansha, means "stranger" in Shelta, a secret language of the Irish Travellers.

The crayfish Orconectes australis of Shelta Cave in Alabama illustrates this point, as it may still reproduce at 100 years, and live to 175.

In addition to slang, some of the vocabulary is taken from Shelta (also known as "the Cant"), which is sometimes used as a code by Travellers.

It is widely known as the Cant, to its native speakers in Ireland as Gammon and to the linguistic community as Shelta.

The Beurla-reagaird is a Gaelic-based cant of the Scottish travelling community related to the Shelta of Ireland.

Several other languages are spoken on the island, including Shelta, a mixture of Irish, Romany and English, spoken widely by Travellers.

The language of the Irish Travellers, Shelta, is mainly based on an Irish Gaelic lexicon and an English grammar.

He erroneously claimed to have discovered 'the fifth Celtic tongue': the form of Cant, spoken among Irish Travellers, which he named Shelta.

Celtic language expert Kuno Meyer and Romani expert John Sampson both assert that Shelta existed as far back as the 13th century.

Irish Travellers speak English and sometimes one of two dialects of Shelta, Gammon (or Gamin) and Irish Traveller Cant.

Below are reproductions of the Lord's Prayer in Shelta as it occurred a century ago, current Shelta, and modern English and Irish versions for comparison.