Sheng

See also: sheng, shéng, shèng, shēng, and shěng

English

Etymology

Blend of Swahili +‎ English.

Proper noun

Sheng

  1. A Kenyan cant based on Swahili and English.
    • 2009, Michela Wrong, It’s Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle Blower:
      English and Kiswahili might be Kenya’s official languages, but pupils tumbling out of school and students in the university canteens chatter to each other in Sheng, to their teachers’ despair. A witty, cheeky, freewheeling Clockwork Orange-style brew of Kiswahili, English and indigenous Kenyan languages, with added dollops of reggae jargon, American slang, French and Spanish, Sheng originated in Nairobi’s Eastlands slums in the 1980s.

Anagrams

Swahili

Alternative forms

Etymology

Formed in English as a blend of Swahili and English.

Pronunciation

  • Audio (Kenya):(file)

Proper noun

Sheng

  1. Sheng (Kenyan cant)
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