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

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variant of the secret language,

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, spoken in the Leiningerland (especially in

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), where in the late 18th century many

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, including many

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

peddler A peddler (American English) or pedlar (British English) is a door-to-door and/or travelling vendor of good (economics), goods. In 19th-century United States the word "drummer" was often used to refer to a peddler or traveling salesman; as exem ...

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)

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