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      Listing sites that concern themselves with made-up playful languages and jargons occurring in all parts of the world. These will often -- but by no means exclusively -- be used by children as a form of code or a game. These languages are characterized by systematic rearrangement of letters or phonemes of words. Play languages are also called ludlings.

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      Linguist List: Double-Dutch and Youthese / Pig Latin

      Mailing list posting talks about early occurrences of Pig Latin and other phonologically manipulated youth languages.
      http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/8/8-1221.html

      University of Pennsylvania: Linguistic Form in Ritual and Play

      Part of the schedule of lectures and assignments of Linguistics 001. Covers language games, song and verse. Includes a section on Ubbi Dubbi and children's language games in a number of countries.
      http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/ling001/games.htm

      Linguist List: Pig Latin

      Mailing list posting mentions several play languages from different cultures, including Ubby Dubby and one used by natives of central Australia.
      http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/2/2-406.html

      Vietnamese vs English: Noi Lai Play Language

      Mailing list thread touches on the noi lai jargon and its significance in Vietnamese society.
      http://www.saigon.com/~kyanh/archives/vn-gblf/msg00303.html

      Interactive Programming In Java: A Community of Interacting Entities

      Word game examples of Java programming. Includes Pig Latin and Ubby Dubby.
      http://www.cs101.org/ipij/interlude-stringXformers.html

      A Bibliography of References Pertaining to Prokem

      An annotated bibliography of references pertaining to Prokem, a slang spoken in Jakarta, Indonesia.
      http://thslone.tripod.com/prokem.html

      Verlan - French Slang à l'Envers

      A summary of the French-based Verlan with examples.
      http://french.about.com/library/vocab/bl-verlan.htm

      Prokem Slang

      Short list of Prokem (Jakartan slang) terms with Indonesian and English glosses.
      http://www.angelfire.com/ga/gwali/slang.html

      Parlez-Vous Verlan?

      A brief discussion of Verlan.
      http://www.globalpolicy.org/globaliz/cultural/2002/0326verlan.htm

      Verlan

      A description of a French-based language game with examples.
      http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verlan

      Argot and Verlan

      A detailed academic description of Verlan by Yvette Ellis, including information on syntax.
      http://www.well.ac.uk/cfol/argot.asp
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      Noi Lai - Vietnamese Play on Words

      Three examples of Noi Lai phrases with their contexts are given.
      http://www.users.bigpond.com/doanviettrung/noilai.html

      Intra-Representational Correspondence and the Realization of Empty Morphemes

      A linguistic paper on ludlings.
      http://ling.ucsc.edu/~sanders/Papers/sanders-pqp.pdf

      Language Game

      Describes the term language game and gives examples from different languages.
      http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_game

      Louchebem

      A description of the French-based language game, Louchébem (or Loucherbem), with examples.
      http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louchebem

      Geringoso

      A description of a Spanish-based language game used in Argentina, with examples.
      http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geringoso

      Linguist List: Language Games

      Mailing list posting author Trey Jones presents a summary of secret and play languages from many cultures, including Cazarny Talk, the Russian Fufa Language, Arabic language play and Bengali Pig Latins. Extensive bibliography.
      http://linguistlist.org/issues/5/5-812.html

      Cockney Rhyming Slang

      An encyclopedia article on Cockney Rhyming Slang, with examples.
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockney_rhyming_slang

      Vesre

      Description with examples of a language reversal in Argentinian Spanish.
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesre

      Ludlings

      A bulletin board discussion of ludlings.
      http://p098.ezboard.com/fwordoriginsorgfrm2.showMessage?topicID=298.topic

      Same-Edge Alignment with Opposite-Edge Effects

      A linguistic paper on ludlings, with examples in Baliktád (from Tagalog) and Zuuja-go (from Japanese).
      http://wso.williams.edu/~nsanders/Papers/sanders-wccfl19.pdf

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