• slang, Sheng is mainly used by the youth and is part of popular culture in Kenya. It also evolves rapidly, as words are moved into and out of slang use...
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  • Provinces of China (省), administrative divisions called shěng in Mandarin Sheng slang, a slang dialect of the Swahili language Cheng (disambiguation) Zheng...
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  • police-related slang terms exist for police officers. These terms are rarely used by the police themselves. Police services also have their own internal slang and...
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  • on the entertainment, culture, craft occupations and development of Sheng slang in Kenya. Reggae music in Kenya is viewed as a powerful agent of both...
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  • Serbo-Croatian-Bosnian slang system; 19th century Swedish (e.g. the word fika, which means approximately "coffee break"). Sheng (e.g. ngware becomes rengwa)...
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    Settler Swahili – Swahili pidgin from Kenya and Zambia Sheng slang – Nairobi urban-based youth slang Shaaban bin Robert (1909–1962), Tanzanian poet, author...
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  • Called a "two-six" or "twenty-sixer" in Canada. Also known as a Botii [ Sheng slang (derived from Italian Bottiglia) > "Bottle"] or Mzinga [ Swahili > "Cannon"]...
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  • coloniser's language is a sign of the success of enslavement." Language portal Sheng slang Engsh Nyaggah, Lynette Behm. "Cross-linguistic influence in Kenyan English:...
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  • Kwani? (derived from the Sheng slang so what?) is a prominent African literary magazine headquartered in Kenya. It has been hailed as "undoubtedly the...
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  • sub-culture street language for the different denominations. Using the street slang (sheng), urbanites often amalgamate Swahili, English, and their mother-tongue...
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