Beurla Reagaird is a nearly extinct, Gaelic-based cant

Cant (language)

A Cant is the jargon or argot of a group, often implying its use to exclude or mislead people outside the group.-Derivation in Celtic linguistics:...

 used by the indigenous Highland Scottish Travellers

Scottish Travellers

Scottish Travellers, or the people termed loosely Gypsies and Tinkers in Scotland, consist of a number of diverse, unrelated communities, with groups speaking a variety of different languages and holding to distinct customs, histories, and traditions...

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Name

Beurla Reagaird (previously also spelled Beurla Reagair) loosely translates as "speech of metalworkers". Although Beurla today refers to the English language

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

, its original meaning is that of "jargon" (from Old Irish bélre, bél "mouth" plus the abstract forming suffix

Suffix

In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns or adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs...

 -re), with the second element being linked to the word eagar "order, array, arrangement" (cf. the Irish

Irish language

Irish , also known as Irish Gaelic, is a Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family, originating in Ireland and historically spoken by the Irish people. Irish is now spoken as a first language by a minority of Irish people, as well as being a second language of a larger proportion of...

Béarla na Saor "speech of the smiths").