PigLatin

Pig Latin is a silly "language" created from any other language as follows:

• for words that begin with consonants, move the leading consonant(s) to the end of the word and add "ay." Thus, "ball" becomes "all-bay"; "button" becomes "utton-bay"; "star" becomes "ar-stay"; "three" becomes "ee-thray."
• for words beginning with "qu," move the "qu" to the end of the word and add ay. Thus "question" becomes "estion-quay,"
• for words that begin with vowels, simply add "ay" to the end of the word. Thus, "a" becomes "a-ay" (or "a-yay"); "at" becomes "at-ay" (or "at-tay"); "ermine" becomes "ermine-ay."

Is-thay is-ay an-ay example-ay of-ay Ig-pay Atin-Lay. As-ay ou-yay an-cay ee-say, its-ay upid-stay, ut-bay ots-lay of-ay un-fay or-fay ildren-chay. --ArrylayAngersay

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Ice-nay escription-day, octor-day anager-say!!! Ig-pay atin-lay is-ay un-fay or-fay ome-say adults-ay. Ou-yay eem-say ite-quay uent-flay, I-ay otice-nay.--OseRayArksPay?--

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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.