Engsh
Template:Short description Engsh is a cant in Kenya whose base language is English that includes borrowings from spoken urban Kenyan Swahili.Template:Sfn
While Sheng, a mostly Swahili-based AUYL,[1] is rooted in the poor eastern neighborhoods of Nairobi (where it has become a mother tongue),[2] Engsh is English-based[1][2] and is spoken in the more affluent Westlands area.[2] It is "a youth register that keeps tabs on American slang and rap music", and sufficiently different from Sheng to be treated separately, according to linguist Erik Kioko.[2]
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- Barasa, Sandra Nekesa, and Maarten Mous. "Engsh, a Kenyan middle class youth language parallel to Sheng." Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 32, no. 1 (2017): 48-74.
- Kaviti, Lillian. "From Stigma to Status-Sheng and Engsh in Kenya's Linguistic and Literary Space." Matatu 46 (2015): 223ff.
- Mous, Maarten, and Sandra Barasa. "Kenya: Sheng and Engsh." In Urban Contact Dialects and Language Change, pp. 105–124. Routledge, 2022.