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Kanana, Fridah Erastus and Atemo Christine Ny'onga. 2019. Lexical restructuring processes in Sheng among the Matatu crew in Nakuru, Kenya. South African Journal of African Languages 39 (1) : 42–55.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
communication | community of practice | language | language use | meaning | urban community | word | youth
Language as a subject
Sheng
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

This paper sketches the (re)structuring and use of Sheng words in the Matatu transport business in Kenya by debating the morphophonological processes involved in producing words from the matrix languages.