Sheng is primarily a Swahili and English-based cant, perhaps a mixed language or creole, originating among the urban youth of Nairobi, Kenya, and influenced by many of the languages spoken there. While primarily a language of urban youths, it has spread across social classes and geographically to neighbouring Tanzania and Uganda.
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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...
Provinces of China (省), administrative divisions called shěng in Mandarin Shengslang, a slang dialect of the Swahili language Cheng (disambiguation) Zheng...
on the entertainment, culture, craft occupations and development of Shengslang in Kenya. Reggae music in Kenya is viewed as a powerful agent of both...
Serbo-Croatian-Bosnian slang system; 19th century Swedish (e.g. the word fika, which means approximately "coffee break"). Sheng (e.g. ngware becomes rengwa)...
Called a "two-six" or "twenty-sixer" in Canada. Also known as a Botii [ Shengslang (derived from Italian Bottiglia) > "Bottle"] or Mzinga [ Swahili > "Cannon"]...
sub-culture street language for the different denominations. Using the street slang (sheng), urbanites often amalgamate Swahili, English, and their mother-tongue...
coloniser's language is a sign of the success of enslavement." Language portal Shengslang Engsh Nyaggah, Lynette Behm. "Cross-linguistic influence in Kenyan English:...
style of music in Kenya. Artists rap in English, Swahili, the local Shengslang or even in vernacular language like kikuyu (G.rongi), Kisii (Smallz Lethal)...
sheng nus as "a social force to be reckoned with" and others have argued the term should be taken as a positive to mean "successful women". The slang...
different. As in English, many Mandarin Chinese slang terms involve the genitalia or other sexual terms. Slang words for the penis refer to it literally, and...
3S may refer to: 3S, for single, seventies/1970s, stuck, a slang form of sheng nu, a derogatory Chinese term referring to unmarried women in their mid...
Young artists often contribute towards the spread of new terms, such as 'Shengslang' words (a combination of Swahili and English). HIV/AIDS is a major cause...
added mid-cooking when the maize has softened. murrum murro – Swahili slang (Sheng) for githeri due to its similar appearance to murram roads; popular among...
similar context in the English-speaking world. In modern China, the slang term sheng nu describes "leftover women". Since the Middle Ages, women had been...
pidgins, creoles, dialects or vernaculars, but not commonly to jargon or slang, which are vocabulary-based forms of cant. In colloquial usage of the term...
distributed, with a simplified version of the constitution translated in Sheng (slang). One response from the public was: "[I] .. thought that the constitution...
title of the Blessed Virgin in Chinese Christianity in Chinese internet slang, a sarcastic, possibly pejorative term for "bleeding-heart" politically...
Engineering Task Force. Retrieved 11 March 2024. Cezar Câmpeanu; Kai Salomaa & Sheng Yu (Dec 2003). "A Formal Study of Practical Regular Expressions". International...
the United States and Japan. Peking opera features four main role types, sheng (gentlemen), dan (women), jing (rough men), and chou (clowns). Performing...
means "assist to wake up after a coma". The phrase also exists in (Sheng) Swahili Slang: In Kenya taking alcohol to relieve a hangover is called "kutoa lock"...
sometimes applied to persons who lived before the term became part of American slang in the 1930s. "Dragon Lady" is one of two main stereotypes used to describe...
internet sensation originating from Kenya. The word Makmende is a sheng (Swahili slang) word which means "a hero". The name supposedly originated from the...
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