There are a number of languages that exist in the world today that are only spoken and understood by a few people who know them. These special types of languages are spoken by a group of people.
This is a language that is spoken only among the members of the Kallawaya tribe in Bolivia.
Kallawaya is a type of language that is spoken only by members of the Kallawaya tribe in Bolivia. The Kallawaya people live mainly in 6 villages in the Apololamba region (Bolivia) and the traditional healers here have used this language for medicinal purposes, although they can also use it to communicate. daily.
Kallawaya was originally from the Quechua language commonly spoken by the Incas. Quechua language is not expressed in written form but is transmitted through oral transmission from father to son, or from medical practitioners to their students. Children are not allowed to learn Kallawaya language but it is only for teenagers and adults who want to learn this language to practice medicine. The Kallawaya language is slowly disappearing and there are less than 100 people alive who can speak it.
This is a language only spoken by women in China.
Nushu or roughly understood as “women’s writing” , this is a language only used by women in China. This strange language originated in the 15th century BC (BC) in Giang Vinh district, Vinh Chau township (Hunan province), in this locality the woman – often forbidden to go to school – had committed suicide. think and invent a way of writing and use it secretly within their own circles. The language remained secret and was only revealed to the Western world in the 1980s.
Some of the characters in the Nushu came from Chinese, while others were invented. Like Chinese, Nushu is written and read from top to bottom and right to left. But unlike Chinese, Nushu characters usually take up less space and produce more lines. The elderly Nushu speaker was Duong Hoan Nghi but passed away at the age of 94 or 98 in 2004.
Prisoners in Argentina use the Lunfardo language as a means of secret communication between them.
Prisoners in Argentina use the Lunfardo language as a means of secret communication between them. At first, this language was spoken by the lower inhabitants of Buenos Aires, it consisted of words from the language of Spanish or Italian. The Lunfardo language has more than 5000 words, and one of the pillars of the language is the verses – the way to change the syllables of a word.
For example Cafe will be pronounced as feca. Lunfardo was very popular in Europe because of the flourishing momentum of Tango music, presenting it as a language of violence and sexuality. In 1943, tango music using the Lunfardo language was banned by ethicists. The use of this language declined in the 1950s and returned in the 1960s.
This language has its roots in professional wrestling, used as a private means of communication during public martial arts fights.
Professional wrestlers often use Carnie (Carny) to communicate between themselves, even when they are standing in front of an audience. This language has its roots in professional wrestling, when festival workers (called carnies) used a private means of communication during public martial arts fights. This type of language is intended to target the wrestler’s physique from specific angles.
In addition, they also used the term “batman match” which often implies poor, less interesting matches; or “crushed” refers to a wrestler being defeated by a group of wrestlers.
It is an unofficial language in Boonville (California).
Boontling is the name for an unofficial language of Boonville (California state) that was spoken between 1880 and 1920. It is a mixture of Native American languages, Spanish and local slang words.
The Boontling language exists only in Boonville because locals fear that if it spreads outside their community, it will be copied by others because they are formed from the names and characteristics of the local inhabitants. side here. The art of using the Boontling language seems to be very complex and often depends on the emotions of the speaker.
3 old men in the Bishigram valley, the last to know Badeshi. (BBC screenshot).
Once a common language in the remote valleys of northern Pakistan, Badeshi is now in danger of “extinction” because only three people can speak it, according to the BBC.
The publication Ethnologue, which archives the world’s languages, says that Badeshi has almost been wiped out because it has not been used for at least three consecutive generations.
The last group of people who still knew the language were the three old men from the Bishigram valley, who couldn’t even remember their age and sometimes forgot words.