Cockney rhyming slang developed originally from the cryptolects of London’s thieves and vagabonds.
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Cryptolect
//ˈkɹɪptə(ʊ)lɛkt//
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30 translations across 20 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- ծածկալեզու noun (secretive language form used by a subculture — see also cant)
Catalan
1 entries- criptolecte noun (secretive language form used by a subculture — see also cant)
Dutch
1 entries- geheimtaal noun (secretive language form used by a subculture — see also cant)
Esperanto
3 entries- kaŝlingvo noun (secretive language form used by a subculture — see also cant)
- kriptolekto noun (secretive language form used by a subculture — see also cant)
- sekreta lingvo noun (secretive language form used by a subculture — see also cant)
Finnish
1 entries- salakieli noun (secretive language form used by a subculture — see also cant)
French
1 entries- cryptolecte noun (secretive language form used by a subculture — see also cant)
German
1 entries- Geheimsprache noun (secretive language form used by a subculture — see also cant)
Hebrew
1 entries- שפת סתרים noun (secretive language form used by a subculture — see also cant)
Japanese
1 entries- 符牒 noun (secretive language form used by a subculture — see also cant)
Korean
1 entries- 변말 noun (secretive language form used by a subculture — see also cant)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- kryptolekt noun (secretive language form used by a subculture — see also cant)
- skjulespråk noun (secretive language form used by a subculture — see also cant)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- løyndespråk noun (secretive language form used by a subculture — see also cant)
- løynspråk noun (secretive language form used by a subculture — see also cant)
Persian
1 entries- زبان رمزی noun (secretive language form used by a subculture — see also cant)
Portuguese
3 entries- argot noun (secretive language form used by a subculture — see also cant)
- criptoleto noun (secretive language form used by a subculture — see also cant)
- língua secreta noun (secretive language form used by a subculture — see also cant)
Romanian
1 entries- limbaj secret noun (secretive language form used by a subculture — see also cant)
Russian
1 entries- арго́ noun (secretive language form used by a subculture — see also cant)
Slovene
1 entries- latovščina noun (secretive language form used by a subculture — see also cant)
Swedish
1 entries- kodspråk noun (secretive language form used by a subculture — see also cant)
Ukrainian
3 entries- арго́ noun (secretive language form used by a subculture — see also cant)
- кант noun (secretive language form used by a subculture — see also cant)
- криптоле́кт noun (secretive language form used by a subculture — see also cant)
West-Frisian
3 entries- argot noun (secretive language form used by a subculture — see also cant)
- geheimtaal noun (secretive language form used by a subculture — see also cant)
- kryptolekt noun (secretive language form used by a subculture — see also cant)
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