Trade talk

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The trade tongue or trade talk is the language of the wharves and docks and sailor’s taverns. It a coarse jumble of words and phrases from a dozen languages, accompanied by hand signs and gestures, most of them insulting.[1] It is a guttural sailor’s pidgin.[2]

Known Speakers

Notes and References

  1. A Feast for Crows, Chapter 34, Cat Of The Canals, p. 508.
  2. A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 47, Tyrion X, p. 628.