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Cant

A cant is the jargon or language of a group, often employed to exclude or mislead people outside the group. It may also be called a cryptolect, argot, pseudo-language, anti-language or secret language. Each term differs slightly in meaning; their uses are inconsistent.

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Etymology

Argot

Anti-language

Regional usage of term

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Cant

Nodes169
Edges168
Triples151
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.011834
Components1

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Cant

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related to Examples · 101
Cant → Adurgari, AfghanistanAgbirigba, African, African-sounding, Afro-Brazilian, Argentina, Asturias, Bekimon, Bekinese, Bonaire, Brazil, BrazilMinderico, BulgariaMiguxês, CaliforniaCaló, Chicano, ChinaBack, Chinese, Curaçao, DenmarkRotwelsch, Eastern EuropeKorean
related to Etymology · 20
Cant → English-speaking, Gammon, Gradually, However, In, Ireland, Irish, Irish Traveller, Irish/Scottish Gaelic, It, Its, Latin, Norman French, Outside Gaelic, Scotland, Scottish Gaelic, Scottish/Irish, The Irish, There, Within
related to Regional usage of term · 19
Cant → Beurla Reagaird, Cantmen, Cantwomen, Connacht, Dublin, Fair Day, Gaelic-based, Highland Traveller's Cant, In, In Scotland, Indigenous Highland Traveller, Ireland, Mohill, Roma, Romani, Scots, Scottish Cant, Scottish Gaelic, The
related to External links · 3
Cant → Media, Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2
related to Thieves' cant · 3
Cant → He, The, There
is a · 1
Cant → jargon or language of a group

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language used argot anti-languages anti-language term slang jargon languages words irish french also word community people anti-society gaelic scotland seen

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Cantis ajargon or language of a group0.90text
verlaninstance ofargot in this sense is used for systems0.80text
louchébeminstance ofargot in this sense is used for systems0.80text
which retain French syntaxinstance ofargot in this sense is used for systems0.80text
apply transformations only to individual wordsinstance ofargot in this sense is used for systems0.80text
Cantrelated to EtymologyThere0.60section
Cantrelated to EtymologyIn0.60section
Cantrelated to EtymologyIrish0.60section
Cantrelated to EtymologyScottish Gaelic0.60section
Cantrelated to EtymologyIt0.60section
Cantrelated to EtymologyIreland0.60section
Cantrelated to EtymologyScotland0.60section

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