Editing Shelta (section)

==Names and etymology==
The language is known by various names. People outside the Irish Traveller community often refer to it as ''[[Cant (language)|[the] Cant]]'', the etymology of which is a matter of debate.<ref name="Queen's" /> Speakers of the language refer to it as ''[the] Cant'',<ref name="McArthur" /> {{lang|sth|[de] Gammon}}<ref name="McArthur" /><ref name="Queen's" /> or {{lang|sth|Tarri}}.<ref name="McArthur" /> Amongst linguists, the name ''Shelta'' is the most commonly used term.<ref name="Queen's" />

Variants of the above names and additional names include ''Bog Latin'',<ref name="McArthur" /> ''Gammon'',<ref name="Dolan">{{cite book |editor-last=Dolan |editor-first=Terence Patrick |title=A Dictionary of Hiberno-English |date=2004 |publisher=[[Gill & MacMillan]] |isbn=0-7171-3535-7}}</ref> ''Sheldru'',<ref name="McArthur" /> ''Shelter'',<ref name="McArthur" /> ''Shelteroch'',<ref name="McArthur" /> ''the Ould Thing'',<ref name="McArthur" /> ''Tinker's Cant'',<ref name="McArthur" /> and ''Shelta Thari''.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Leland on the Gypsies |date=September 1882 |magazine=[[The Atlantic]] |page=417 |url= https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1882/09/leland-on-the-gypsies/633024/}} Select "View This Story as a PDF" to bypass the partial pay-wall.</ref>

===Etymology===
The word ''Shelta'' appeared in print for the first time in 1882, in the book ''The Gypsies'' by the "gypsiologist" [[Charles Leland]], who claimed to have discovered it as the "fifth Celtic tongue". The word's etymology has long been a matter of debate. Modern [[Celtic studies|Celticists]] believe that Irish {{lang|ga|siúl}} {{IPA|ga|ʃuːlʲ|}} "to walk" is at the root, either via a term such as {{lang|ga|siúltóir}} {{IPA|ga|ˈʃuːl̪ˠt̪ˠoːɾʲ|}} 'a walker' or a form of the [[verbal noun]] {{lang|ga|siúladh}}, cf. {{lang|ga|an lucht siúlta}} {{IPA|ga|ənˠ ˌl̪ˠʊxt̪ˠ ˈʃuːl̪ˠt̪ˠə|}}, 'the walking people', lit. 'the people of walks',<ref>{{cite book |title=Collins Irish Dictionary |publisher=HarperCollins |date=2006}}</ref> the traditional Irish term for Travellers.<ref name="Queen's" /> 

The ''Dictionary of Hiberno-English'' cites it as possibly a corruption of the word ''[[Celt]]''.<ref name="Dolan" /> Since Shelta is a mixture of English and Irish grammar, the etymology is not straightforward. The language is made up mostly of Irish lexicon, being classified as a grammar-lexicon language with the grammar being English-based.<ref name="Velupillai 2015 381">{{harvp|Velupillai|2015|p=381}}</ref>