Language games

secret language game

game involving whispering

one-syllable article by Yuen Ren Chao

'''' () is a type of argot in the French language, featuring inversion of syllables in a word, and is common in slang and youth language. It rests on a long French tradition of transposing syllables of individual words to create slang words. The word itself is an example of verlan (making it an autological word). It is derived from inverting the sounds of the syllables in l'envers'' (, "the inverse", frequently used in the sense of "back-to-front"). The first documented use of verlan dates back to the 19th century, among robbers.

text using a mixture of languages

numbers in Chinese culture

Chinese slang and Internet meme

making spoken words incomprehensible to the untrained ear, such as in Pig Latin

Grammelot (or gromalot or galimatias) is an imitation of language used in satirical theatre, an ad hoc gibberish that uses prosody along with macaronic and onomatopoeic elements to convey emotional and other meaning, and used in association with mime and mimicry. The satirical use of such a format may date back to the 16th-century commedia dell'arte; the group of cognate terms appears to belong to the 20th century.

coded form of English speech

Šatrovački (; Serbian Cyrillic: шатровачки) or šatra (; Serbian Cyrillic: шатра) is an argot within the Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian languages comparable to verlan in French or vesre in Spanish.

any system of slang in which a word is replaced with a phrase that rhymes with it

' or ' () is Parisian and Lyonnaise butchers' (French ) slang, similar to Pig Latin and Verlan. It originated in the mid-19th century and was in common use until the 1950s.

thumb|Gloria Mcilwain saying "Circle" in Tutnese (Southern Dialect) thumb|Gloria Mcilwain saying "Welcome" in Tutnese (Southern Dialect) thumb|Gloria Mcilwain saying "Bubbles" in Tutnese (Southern Dialect) Tutnese (also known as Tut) is an argot created by enslaved African Americans based on African-American Vernacular English as a method to covertly teach and learn spelling and reading.

Javanais (, lit. 'Javanese (language)') is a type of French slang where the extra syllable is infixed inside a word after every consonant that is followed by a vowel, in order to render it incomprehensible. Some common examples are gros (, "fat") which becomes gravos (); bonjour (, "hello"'), which becomes bavonjavour (); and pénible (, "annoying"), becomes pavénaviblave (). Paris () becomes Pavaravis ().

language game

Rövarspråket () is a Swedish language game. It became popular after the books about Bill Bergson by Astrid Lindgren, where the children use it as a code, both at play and in solving actual crimes.