IS SHENG A LANGUAGE OR SLANG/ KENYAN SWAHILI/ KENYAN SLANG 

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

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 best comment, i love the way you articulated everything

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.

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 are very right sheng evolves so fast and it changes so much so it only remain as slang

Oww ok I understand that

🤣🤣🤣bro wakenya wote wanaongea sheng

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

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.

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

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.

Oww ok

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 like swahili,wonder why pple hate it

We Kwenda huko.. nkt

Ok ill look into it

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?" 😂😂😂

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.

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?

Yes I have come to learn that

Bro me siezi walai😹😹😹

It must suck to be you then😂

Yes kiswahili is spoken by many countries in Africa

Lol ok I'll go listen to it

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.

😂😂😂😂 so have you reached the factory settings yet

@@thatgirl_haju2509 myself am currently stepping back into swahili rn😅

​@@thatgirl_haju2509Slowly getting there😂

Thank you so much

Woo ok so do you speak sheng?

@@thatgirl_haju2509 everybody speaks sheng even old people

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.

Sijaelewa kitu 😆😅

@@thatgirl_haju2509 Bonga na mimi fiti... Utasaidika! 😊

@@thatgirl_haju2509 umesalimiwa 🤣🤣🤣rieng ndio salamu msupa ni wewe

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!! 😊😊

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

Mrazi sheesh na ameacha like ajanauowo umebanja 😂😂,,sasa sanifisha lughaz ndo akuget

@@PLACESNONDESCRIPT rembeteng 😂

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

Hehehe kiswahili as a subject is very hard even in Tanzania alot of people fail

So ur used to sheng more then Swahili

uwezi elewa

Why woud we do that?

I don't get it either😅😅

Vizuri sana

Ok if u think so

Wow I never thought of that

I know it was annoying me as well when I was editing 😅

😂😂😂😂 yes nilikosea mwanzo 🙈

@@thatgirl_haju2509 No problem my dear, you are doing 👍

Its how he thinks he can protect kiswahili

😂😂😂 yani hata mm sijaielewa at the end its a slang I guess

@@thatgirl_haju2509 By the way keep up the good work