IS SHENG A LANGUAGE OR SLANG/ KENYAN SWAHILI/ KENYAN SLANG
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- Hey guys in this video we're going to be exploring whether Sheng is a language or a slang from Kenya. Where it all started and who is using the language or slang do kenyans speak more English ,swahili or sheng?
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The problem is that speaking in Swahili is viewed as obedience, and Kenyan youth hate obedience.
You misspoke. It's not that Kenyan youth hate obedience, its just that they are rebellious... as is the nature of ALL TEENAGERS across the globe. The wayward expression of their raging hormones which is presently manifesting has in part taken the form of this SHENG (English and Swahili slang mix). It's a passing phase no more.
Consider also, that many of the ones who gravitate toward this SHENG reside in slum cities devoid of hope and opportunity; this means, that whatever gimmick promising them the spotlight, even for a short time, will be immediately exploited.
🤣🤣🤣🇰🇪🇰🇪 yeah we don't
Hail No you are out of order
Oh, no no no no. To whom is that a belief though?
ndo sisi sasa
Sheng is widely spoken amongst the younger generation in Kenya. It was intended to make it difficult for parents to understand conversations or topics of discussion. Sheng is limitless as far as language is concerned; it borrows from almost every language ever known to man - if the word is known to the youth, they'll find a way to use it. Some words are common English and swahili words used in reverse or broken into parts, then jumbled. It has been and will be difficult to have a sheng dictionary because the language is constantly evolving and changing by the day and by generation.
Sheng was born as a urban slang in the streets of Nairobi, it grew over time to take influences from local languages , English and Swahili, it influenced the way music was sang in Kenya,
No one in Kenya is calling for sheng to be an official language. Not one person.
Every major town or city in the world has its urban lingo or slang. It's just Kenyans do the most lol... English, Swahili, and Sheng are here to stay.
Sheng has been around since the 70s and every generation has its own twist on it, actually can tell someone's age basically by Sheng they use.
We also know when to separate all three.
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 best comment, i love the way you articulated everything
12:10 this guy made a good point. Even Swahili was derived from different languages, so there shouldn't be anything wrong with Sheng also doing the same. I imagine the original bantu speakers in east africa were probably also upset that the language was being mixed with other languages too
Yes but Swahili was formed to unit the bantu communities to fight again the coloniser as one what it the need for sheng now?
@@thatgirl_haju2509 sheng first developed in Nairobi by youths who didn't want their parents to follow their conversation!!
@@thatgirl_haju2509 every country has it's slang. Even Tanzania has its version of slang. Young people, especially, have a way of communicating whose purpose is to ensure secrecy. Even sheng galvanizes Kenyan youth. Btw, it's not an official language.
@@thatgirl_haju2509 Swahili was born out of trade between the Arabs and the communities from the coastal and interior parts.
Sheng is a only unique to Kenya. It identifies us.I don't see any problem with it.
It's nice having something that's unique
Not the whole Kenya only in Nairobi
@@kijanahodari2080 Buda Sheng iko kenya mzima, ukiambie msee 'Rada bro' hiyo ni sheng already
@@babushka6987 I dis agree with you sheng is popular and mostly spoken in Nairobi and it's surbubs compared to any part of the country .sheng is only unique in Nairobi and it's surbubs and not the whole country and some words if uttered it's not easy for someone from rural to easily understand so according to my opinion let's emphasize on speaking our national language Swahili and be proud of it
@@babushka6987 ata sasa - poa ni kiswahili ya wapi it still kenyan slang our swahili is different it's not something to be embarrassed it's our identity na sio ati tujui kiswahili sanifu that we know it's mandatory we are taught in school but what we choose to speak huku njee ni kwa raha zetu
Sheng is an upcoming language it was born in kanairo ( Nairobi ) it contains English swahili and also some of vernacular or local languages , I believe some day sheng will be a national language
As a Kenyan , I am also Proud swahili speaker and I prefer it than sheng. Plus no one will understand you outside of Nairobi if you speak in sheng anyway. My opinion is , lets just stick to our Swahili which is an international language.
Yes I definitely agree have a slang is cool but it should not lead to the abandonment of the main language
Mimi nakeambia, wewe na maodijo wa kiswahili ndio mta-stick kwa kiswahili sanifu. Sheng' imemuokalyze na ubaya. Tutaongea na watu Waze kiswahi, juu inabidi. Ama wewe umezeeka?
@@thatgirl_haju2509 sheng ina kautamu kake, and we know when to separate the three. Like, In the office I can use English or swahili, with friends just let it fly.
If go to Kampala I speak English, anywhere Tz I speak swahili and in Nairobi I speak all 3 depending on the company I have.
kila mtaa iko na sheng yake. so don't say that. and 99% the words relate.
Sheng jo ni kutafautisha wakenya real na wale wakukom
You should come do an interview in one of the Kenyan Ghettos. I can see your love for Kenya from a far.
I would love to come to kenya
@@thatgirl_haju2509 what's your Instagram? Tried to find your page on facebook.
@@thatgirl_haju2509 I'm your big fan from Nairobi
Sheng nikam vile Black Americans wanavyo zungumza kingereza..same na Sheng Kwa kiswahili kwetu
Sema it sounds way different na kiswahili sijaelewa anything 😅😅
That is actually an inaccurate example, Sheng is like Pidgin or Jamaican Patois.
Am trying to say tz Swahili is like British English while for Kenyans Swahili is American English with a lot of slang words.. sometimes ata hao black American uwezi elewa chenye wanasema while you know English perfectly well..
@@esem135 yah also u can put it on that perspective
@@patrickochieng79 Ok. Though, even for Kiswahili there are variations, there is Kiunguja (Zanzibar), Kiamu( Lamu), Kimvita (Mombasa). I guess that would be better comparison on different Kiswahili versions just the way there is American English, British English, Australian etc. When it comes to standardized Kiswahili there is actually very little difference between TZ and Kenyan Kiswahili. Sheng is just another language that pegs on twisted Kiswahili with other languages just like pidgin or patois is pegged on twisted English mixed with other languages.
Sheng is a coded language and it is NOT Kiswahili. It is also not spoken by ALL Kenyans. All Kenyans speak Kiswahili even though the level of fluency is varied just the same way it is with English. Kiswahili and English are both compulsory subjects in Kenyan Education curriculum from primary to secondary school. Kiswahilli and English are Kenya's official languages, but Kiswahili is the national language and English is Kenya's business language. Kiswahili language originated on the Kenyan Coast through the Pokomo/Miji Kenda languages. On the streets and day to day lives, Kenyans will speak Sheng, English, Kiswahili or their mother tongue based on preference. I have no idea why people are hell bent on distancing Kenyans with Kiswahili and creating twisted narratives.
Oww ok I understand that
🤣🤣🤣bro wakenya wote wanaongea sheng
Sheng is specific to different hoods in Nairobi area, for example eastern Nairobi sheng is very different from the the western. I'm a Nairobian but I don't understand sheng, but I don't disapprove of it. However sheng cannot be an official language just like American slang or English slang cannot
Ok that makes sense 🤔 so u also don't understand 😅😆
@@thatgirl_haju2509 Even me I don't understand it. It is hard to communicate with young Kenyan boys.
As a young person from Kenya we should embrace Swahili but not Sheng coz it changes time to time.
Sheng is like swahili,wonder why pple hate it
We Kwenda huko.. nkt
First off Sheng isn't, has never been and can never be a Language. It's basically a Slang. Linguists will agree with me, I am 29 years now and the Sheng evolves overnight, the words we were using while I was 22 have vanished now and can't be used anymore - in fact using them makes one appear backword. Sheng doesn't pass as a creole or as pigdin and that's why a kid will always switch back to proper Swahili while speaking to their parents or their elders. Another thing is Sheng is only popular in certain areas and words could mean different things in different areas.
You are very right sheng evolves so fast and it changes so much so it only remain as slang
Sheng evolves overnight, from dem to manzi to mdenge and at one point to mnyonyo then to mamaa,it will never have a static set of vocabulary.But it is fun,you get to play with words and mess with the ignorant.
I low-key love Kenyan swahili kuliko ya kwetu Tanzania. But this Sheng slang I don't understand anything 😂😂😂
Not all Kenyans speak or understand Sheng.
Hehe yani I also didn't understand anything 😂😂
Do you understand it?
@@thatgirl_haju2509 I only understand basic and obvious words. I don't understand 90 per cent of it.
I live in Mombasa and here the slang used are more Tanzanian. we've not adopted more of Nairobi sheng. i understand a lot of it but I rarely use sheng. it's beautiful language though
Sheng is used by mostly youth, if u want them to understand u.
if u are able to say ng'ombe then use ng' in she ng'
Sheng is language mixed of swahili, local mother tongues , words such as (kikuyu word roshio /tomorrow) . I am a kenyan but I don't understand sheng
Yah it sounds so hard to understand
@@thatgirl_haju2509 absolutely, kuna wakati ninasikia wakitangaza taarifa ya habari kwa sheng, nikiwa kwenye matatu, na ninajiambia "ni nini hiyo amesema sasa?" 😂😂😂
Hey Haju, you should check the new language called shembeteng
Ok ill look into it
The swahili speaker in a red shirt who was complaining about sheng is right.Let those of us who speak kiswahili sanifu stick to it.Sheng is not an official language, is not even recognized in government circles and will never be. Sheng words keep changing and are not constant.For example you will find some different regions of Nairobi referring to a girl as manzi, others as dame and others as ndoko.
Then they will refer to dad's as buda, mzae e.t.c.
Msichana Kisumu we call them Atudo
Sheng' is made by not only Kiswahili and English but also local languages in Kenya, it's a language born in Eastlands of Nairobi and it has grown very fast over time,making almost everybody to speak it especially in Nairobi among the young generation, around 30years downwards.
Oww ok
Enyewe ni slang kuna zingine adi mm siget.
different sheng slang in different sides of Nairobi city, tunaradana bado
"kanairo govana Ni mjamo"
Sheng is more of a slang language used in urban centres within Kenya
Swahili is a language which is a lingua franca used in most of East Africa
In Kenya we talk sheg most but we also do swahili😮
Bring in your sister in the next videos.. I like the vibrance that comes in when both of you are in. Individually you are awesome....but together your are indescribably wonderful
Don't worry tomorrow's video will be together
@@thatgirl_haju2509 awesome.. waiting ..
@@davidsogoni the sister is hotter, would love to marry her.
Sheng is spoken depending on the context, in the informal situation in media or the people of the same situation, however with people of an older generation and formal situation, we use Swahili and English not Sheng
huu ngeos naeza mwai dimba real quick
Mrazi sheesh na ameacha like ajanauowo umebanja 😂😂,,sasa sanifisha lughaz ndo akuget
@@PLACESNONDESCRIPT rembeteng 😂
Sheng is only in Nairobi doesn't exist in Mombasa at all and Mombasa people don't consider sheng as a language.
listen to this song ; Kidungi by Mbogi Genje...pure sheng
Lol ok I'll go listen to it
Sheng is authentically kenyan .
Kiswahili should be standardised, and still taught in schools.
But don't mandate speech. If seeking employment and multilingua is a requament seek more, languages not different.
Sheng is used in daily life.
Kiswahili is a costal Bantu language spoken from Barawa in Somalian to Mozambique.
Yes kiswahili is spoken by many countries in Africa
Sheng is urban slang used by few young Kenyans. Most of sheng speakers can speak Kiswahili sanifu also.
Yes I have come to learn that
Bro me siezi walai😹😹😹
It must suck to be you then😂
swahili is also an agglomeration of different languages ... so show hao warazi wadikware.
@ Haju I like this channel.
Thank you so much
No.... Sheng is big business.... Many advertisement use it, and some jobs actually requires to speak sheng
Sheng 2 de top..
sheng' cannot be an official language because it is a slang and it changes in different neighborhoods. sheng ni language ya youth ya kuexpress mtaa tofauti in terms of art and culture
Woo ok so do you speak sheng?
@@thatgirl_haju2509 everybody speaks sheng even old people
Leave sheng to us, Tanzanians just stick to Kiswahili. Stop hating, you guys should embrace sheng no one who speaks sheng hates Kiswahili. U guys should hail young kenyans for innovating but all you do is hate!( Crab in a barrel mentality 🤦 y'all sad) because you love Kiswahili you have to hate on sheng??? Im a proud kenyan who wants sheng to be the official language! How do you call a fridge-friji and hate on sheng!!!(also called jokofu) but swahili still has its inadequacy. Growth of sheng dsnt mean death of swahili!!! Y'all should do better, grow your mentality stop self hate! I guess thats y ur Tanzanian just leave sheng alone !!!!
10:56 @Haju, well said.
I think that every language developed from a mixture of different languages or under the influence of many factors (including colonization/immigration/trade, etc.). The fact that even Swahili is a mixture of Arabic, Bantu and some Portuguese shows that Swahili is not an ancient language. The same goes for Dutch, which sounds like a mixture of English and German.
Yes you have a point but kiswahili has become a very important part of our identity and we take pride in that
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@@thatgirl_haju2509 sheng is part of Nairobis identity!! Im not trolling im just telling you facts mami!!!
As an American who is attempting to learn swahili. Swahili is still largely a bantu language with a small percentage of it's loan words from English and a few other langurages (like 10%) and the other is 30% Arabic (that's the highest percent I have seen). So, I believe it could be ancient if you are looking at if from the bantu perspective (60% of the language is bantu).
It's like Korean. How 10% or a little bit more of Korean have english loan words but they use the Korean alphabet when spelling and sounding out those loan words. If you read the Korean loan word it sounds exactly like the English translation it's meant to be. And how Korean is technically simplified Chinese. When learning individuals make sure they learn the grammer and sentence structure behind the language so they can sounds as Native as possible. It's a language that was developed to give the Koreans the ability to read and write under the Chinese rule using the Chinese alphabet. But, when you think of the Korean language you think of Korea. They don't butcher the language due to it being super simplified Chinese/a small percentage english.
I want to learn an African language but at times I feel it's almost worthless. I feel Africans almost have this pride of killing off their languages and replacing them with European languages.
I will note not to learn from a Kenyan if I really want to learn Swahili is what I am getting from most of these videos.
It is good sheng
MONCHOKA - COME HERE
That guy saying we can not speak English and Swahili because of sheng,thats a lot of bs...i speak good Swahili,I can write good Swahili, and English, I speak three other languages, add sheng into the mix, I know where to use English and Swahili and be professional, I speak agent with my peers, I speak my native languages with my folks... Sheng is specifically for youths by youths, but Swahili is the more permanent between the two, you have to know Swahili to understand sheng
Ok that means you have a good control on how and what you say but most people don't have that
Everyone I know is like that,his reasoning is if you speak one version of a language affects your other version of the same language which is not true, even in my native tribal language, the men who have underwent our right of passage have a different slang of our native that is only understood only by men who have underwent that passage, but it doesn't affect our cognitive understanding of our main language, you get what I mean?? Talk to any Kenyan youth in proper English, and Swahili, spoken or written and they will respond accordingly, engage them in sheet and they'll respond accordingly... You get what I mean?
Sheng is for the youth(rebellion), once you get older, you revert to Kiswahili yaani Factory settings coz that particular Sheng of that generation will be like Greek😂😂 . Business deals ARE being made using Sheng 😂.
Language evolves, that's one thing you can't change.
😂😂😂😂 so have you reached the factory settings yet
@@thatgirl_haju2509 myself am currently stepping back into swahili rn😅
@@thatgirl_haju2509Slowly getting there😂
Eti!!! Shenga aki oria 😊😊😊
It depends on your hoods
Sheng mixture of languges
Sheng will never go away. No matter how much people try and kill it. It will just evolve. It just Kenyan coz we are a free society. If you don't have vernacular radio stations in Tanzania then It will not be possible to compare the two countries in terms of language. Bieng tribal is part of our identity and we will never be ashamed of it.
Ok thats good for you
aisee we uko zako, sentence umechoma mbaya.
By the way kenya embraces difference in culture be it language be it socially yani tuwezi fanana
@@jeddynduta4049 True Tanzania is almost a monolith.
Yeah there needs to be a sheng bible and/or koran project.. its too feeble now.
But some of the words that might have flown over you from the radio presenter are:
Gwaya - fear (from Kikuyu "guoya")
BBI - building bridges intiative --it was a 2018 call to ammend the Kenyan constitution
Dai - want (from swahili "dai" which means to ask for debts owed)
Buya - hesitate -out of uncertainity
Addisia - add (shengified English)
Chunjwa - to be fired (dramatised swahili)
...the other guyz sheng is too esoteric I barely make out 1/5th of what he is saying.
It's Chuja not Chunja
Wow I would not have been able to understand anything
Hehe true @E W M ..usijali mi ni msapere(mkikuyu)
Other translations from the radio guy:
Tambua - respect/pay homage to(dramatised swahili)
Roroa - reveal (from Kikuyu "roroa" which means remove soil from the ground to expose something buried)
Code - write (dramatised English)
Chorea - abandon (dramatised swahili)
Mbekse - two (I Believe it came from a Kenyan hiphop group 'khg' called 'Mbogi genje')
Riang' - to be updated on what's happening (I first heard 'rieng' from a khg called boondocks)
Ssepa - escape (from khg 'wakadinali')
Mangata - Wake/Funeral (metathesis from swahili 'matanga')
Mothama - mother (metathesis from classic sheng matha/mathe plus 'mũ' prefix)
I love languages and I appreciate your content on this subject very much @thatgirl_haju keep them coming!! 😊😊
🤣Sheng pia mimi kutoka Nairobi sometimes inachanganya alafu pia inategemea mta gani umetoka..kila mtaa ikona sheng yake...
Heheh kwahio na ww unaongea sheng au
Yah na zungumza Sheng cos am from the Eastside of Nairobi mostly is where sheng comes from..but mtaa wangu inaitwa ziwani Kuna waswahili wengi shemu hio.so i can switch from kiswahili, English and Sheng Easily
Gotta City my hood. 😁 Big up Madocho! Rieng' msupa?
Sijaelewa kitu 😆😅
@@thatgirl_haju2509 Bonga na mimi fiti... Utasaidika! 😊
@@thatgirl_haju2509 umesalimiwa 🤣🤣🤣rieng ndio salamu msupa ni wewe
NGUMI NI MBWEGZE😂 IM NEVER LIVING KENYA
Kenya 🇰🇪
Simply Sheng not Shenga.
Sheng keep changing with time the language has been there since the 90s but those who spoke it those times cannot understand the current Sheng being spoken since words are lost and replaced with new ones. For me sheng is a bit unstable, unreliable its too coded and inconsistent, myself I was a sheng speaker but I cannot grasp the current sheng 😇
In Tanzania sheng' is krioli or pijini
Some words are from nowhere not English, Swahili nor local languages eg
Cheda - money
Rwabe - 200shillings
Chwani - 50shillings
Soo (pronounced as saw) - 100shillings
Rieng' - plan (eg. Rieng' ya Leo ni gani?)
The language is an official language but spoken by more people than any other language
It's better we stick with swahili
Excellent
BBI ( BUILDING BRIDGES INITIATIVE) this was an initiative to change constitution.
Most Kenyans failed Kiswahili in schools. We found official Kiswahili hard. So unknown swahili vocabulary were replaced with English
Hehehe kiswahili as a subject is very hard even in Tanzania alot of people fail
kiSwaHili ENGlish-SHENG
Hhmmmm it's a lie which school in kenya utaongelesha mwalimu sheng sheng ni lugha ya mtaani tu
U must be joking.We can speak Queens English fluently As Nairobians.We give them Swahili but We can communicate effectively with the World 🌎 both spoken and written English.And we can speak and understand Swahili written and spoken.Not to mention our Mother tounges.We are Multilingual.We are way more educated than TZdians.
You really tried but I tell for free I'm a victim ya sheng. I find myself using sheng even if I try talking in swahili or English
So ur used to sheng more then Swahili
French started as a slang.
We say sheng' the ng' not ng😊
sheng haiwezi kuwa lugha rasmi.sababu sheng ilikuwa ikibadilika kwa kila mda
We Use British English instead of Swahili. huyu mzee muongo. most of us speak fluent English compared to swahili which No living kenyan can construct a full swahili sentence. sheng is just another basic need for Kenyans.
Bbi is building bridges initiative i also dont like
BBI -Building Bridges Initiative
Not shenga but sheng' to learn swahili go mombasa to learn sheng' nenda nairobi...my slang I know a girl we call her msupa
ATI SHENGA
Aki dear sio shenga ni sheng you stop at the g
It's time we start French😂😂💪
Why woud we do that?
It's Sheng'
Don’t bash me and allow me to express my opinions. The reality is majority of Kenyans can’t speak english nor kiswahili fluently they only understand but can’t speak. That is from politicians to professionals, including many university lecturerers and phd holders. Even sheng’ its only spoken mainly in Nairobi mostly at the ghettos and minimally in the middle class. Kenyan richkids speak pure english or sometimes they include few swahili words. We are a confused nation when it comes to languages.
We are not a confused nation. People just speak what they feel comfortable with. We do not owe any of the languages anything apart from our mother-tongues perhaps. You will find those who are fluent in English and not Kiswahili or vice versa, or those who are fluent in both. Level of fluency also varies both in written and spoken as well. Some are better at spoken than written or vice versa and the exceptional ones fluent at both. There is no way a Kenyan who has gone to school in Kenya for 12 years of both primary and secondary will be totally rubbish at both. Fluency is the main difference - what language you mainly speak at home will contribute to which language you are fluent in.
I have seen some glimpse of that as well
Mimi ni mjaluo mgiriama naelewa swahili mufti na sheng pia haswaa
Vizuri sana
Sh-kiswahili
Eng-english
Sh+eng =sheng
Wow I never thought of that
I dont support sheng on my side. We want something universal to unite Afrika mashariki kisha Afrika nzima and that is swahili
#kiswahili_kitukuzwe
Ati Shenga🤣🤣🤣🤣
MBONA HUYO MZAE ANA HATE ON SHENG😂😂😂😂
Its how he thinks he can protect kiswahili
It's sheng not shenga
Sheng ni language poa sana. Kama unajua kiswahili, unaweza roroka Sheng. Cheza tu kama wewe na utajipata umechanuka.
😭😭😭Wakenya hii ndo nini sasa ?🤣🤣🤣haibu tupu .... Wamombasani kujeni mtusaidie
uwezi elewa
Jamani sio shenga🤣
I know it was annoying me as well when I was editing 😅
Most kenyans don't even understand Sheng. Only in certain areas.
I don't get it either😅😅
Don't translate your own things
First of all it’s not shenga!!!
It's Sheng, not Shenga jamani
😂😂😂😂 yes nilikosea mwanzo 🙈
@@thatgirl_haju2509 No problem my dear, you are doing 👍
K bbi is an initiative by the Kenyan president
Everyone who speaks sheng undestands Kiswahili so mo worries : )
OMG!! it's sheng not shenga