Lotegorisch or ''Lottegorisch'' or ''Lekoudesch'' (older own description: ''lochne kodesch'', from the he, laschon = "tongue, language", and ''kodesch'' = "holy") is a trading language and

Palatine A palatine or palatinus (in Latin; plural ''palatini''; cf. derivative spellings below) is a high-level official attached to imperial or royal courts in Europe since Roman times.

variant of the secret language, Rotwelsch, spoken in the

Leiningerland The Leiningerland is an historic landscape in the Palatinate region in the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It is named after an aristocratic family that used to be the most important in the region, the House of Leiningen. Geograph ...

(especially in

Carlsberg Carlsberg may refer to: Places * Carlsberg (district), a district in Copenhagen, Denmark ** Carlsberg station, its train station * Carlsberg, Germany, a municipality in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany * Carlsberg Fjord, Greenland Other uses * Carlsbe ...

), where in the late 18th century many

vagrants Vagrancy is the condition of homelessness without regular employment or income. Vagrants (also known as bums, vagabonds, rogues, tramps or drifters) usually live in poverty and support themselves by begging, scavenging, petty theft, tem ...

, including many

Jew Jews ( he, יְהוּדִים, , ) or Jewish people are an ethnoreligious group and nation originating from the Israelites Israelite origins and kingdom: "The first act in the long drama of Jewish history is the age of the Israelites""T ...

s, were settled and where many of them worked as cattle traders, itinerant craftsmen, and

peddler A peddler, in British English pedlar, also known as a chapman, packman, cheapjack, hawker, higler, huckster, (coster)monger, colporteur or solicitor, is a door-to-door and/or travelling vendor of goods. In England, the term was mostly used f ...

s.Meißner (1999)

References

Literature

*Anton Meißner: ''Die pfälzische Handelssprache Lotegorisch. Wörterbuch mit Leseproben''. Meißner Verlag, Wattenheim, 1999 (printed as a manuscript)

External links

www.lotegorisch.de (archived version at archive.org @ 2019-01-22)

German dialects Anterior Palatinate Palatinate Forest Occupational cryptolects {{Germanic-lang-stub