2025/05/15 by Sarvasy, Hannah
paper · doi:10.18716/ojs/the_mouth.2829
Secret language and linguistic taboos are part of Nungon discourse practices. That is, like most speech communities, Nungon speakers censor various aspects of language in particular contexts. This chapter is an exhaustive report of my knowledge of these systems, to the extent to which local people have assented to their being shared. The elements discussed here are: forest avoidance registers, young people’s code-speak, and other linguistic taboos.