ARGOT

'Argot' (French and Spanish for "slang") is primarily slang used by various groups, including but not limited to thieves and other criminals, to prevent outsiders from understanding their conversations.
Victor Hugo was one of the first to extensively research argot[1]. He describes it in his novel, Les Misérables, as the language of the dark; at one point he says:
Bruce Sterling defines argot as "the deliberately hermetic language of a small knowledge clique.... a super-specialized geek cult language that has no traction in the real world." For example: "He philosophized and recited baseball statistics in a Brooklyn argot that was fast-fading."

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★ Barallete

★ Bargoens

★ Bron

★ Caló

★ cant

★ Cockney rhyming slang

★ cryptolect

★ Doublespeak

★ Ebonics

★ Fala dos arxinas (Verbo dos arginas)

★ Gacería

★ Gail

★ Germanía

★ Klezmer-loshn

★ language game

★ Leet

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★ Louchebem

★ Nadsat

★ Pig Latin

★ Polari

★ Rotwelsch

★ Šatrovački

★ Shibboleth

★ variety (linguistics)

★ Verlan

★ Yeshivish

★ Xíriga