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Question: is
PigLatin primarily a phenomenon of children in English speaking countries, or are the same rules followed by children of other countries?
- watashi wa nihongo no gakusei desu.
- "I am a Japanese language student"
In Japanese language, I believe that the syllable is more of a fundamental unit that 'consonant' or 'vowel'. (Japanese characters, hiragana and katakana, form a syllabary rather than an alphabet.) So little kids in Japan would probably follow a different set of rules to create their own mock language.
I hope someone knows about this. I never thought of it before, and now I'm really interested.
I have heard that the Japanese use "ba-bi-bu-be-bo" language. So "Boku ha Juuitchan da" would come out something like:
"bobokubu waba jubuubuibitchaban daba"
I will ask my Japanese teacher (nihongo no sensei) next week. I don't have class until Wednesday, due to the holiday on Monday.
Hopefully I won't forget, but someone can please remind me. I can also ask my Japanese mother-in-law.
On equivalents of
PigLatin in other countries there is the
French market argot
Louchebem and Javanais
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PigLatin is a spoken code. American Blacks used the language to hide intentions from hostile overseers. Nowadays it is taught as a game, but it helped people survive.
Is this true?
Pig Latin is also sometimes used by adults to hide certain words from small children, for example:
"Do you want a ookie-cay?" or "Where did you hide the istmas-Chray esents-pray?"
There is also a related code language, I'm not sure if it has a name, in which each word is essentially spelled out, but consenants are appended with the suffix -ong and vowels are just spoken. For instance:
Hello -> Hong-E-long-long-O
Good -> Gong-O-O-dong
Cookie -> Cong-O-O-kong-I-E
Apple -> A-pong-pong-long-E
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