http://johnambuli.synthasite.comSHENG IS AN OFFICIAL LANGUAGE AT KERICHO YOUTH CENETER

For many years since our child hood ,the language sheng has been existing and widely used by Kenyans .No one used to take it seriously as a language though and mostly it was taken to be a language for the street people or borntowns .It was linked to the evil ways that were caused by the modern ways of life .Everyone who was heard speaking the language was taken to be either  a coneman or a gangster or any other of ther evil behaviours in our towns and cities that we know.Therefore the language and it’s use have been feared by many because of the above reasons.

The Origin of the language can not be easily traced unless we consult the experts of linguistics ,otherwise most of us found the language being used aand only those who came before us can know it’s origins or if any experts might have taken his or her time to research and find out about this.For those of us who grew up in upcountry urban places ,we can klnow alittle about it’s origin because we have used it and we can tell what is going on from our experiences.The uneducated people from up country used to have difficulty filling up the languges ,both English and Kiswahili  and therefore they used to mixed them whichever way they could find it possible to use them and be understood .That is all that we know about the origin of the language .

The language ,however,has not received any formal attention from the experts of linguistics in this country ,though the language has been growing rapidly and it’s use almost matching or out doing  that of the two official languages i.e Kiswahili and English.It was only mentioned in the press sometime ago that one linguist was working on producing a dictionary for the language users but it has been a long time since then and the gentlemanm has never been heard of ever since that time .Despite all that goes on about linguistics in this country ,but the language still commands a lot of following .Those who used to speak it in the past forty five years since independence are the current viollager elders and they are still using it ,meaning that the language is gonna become a third official language oin this country .There is nothing that we can do about it ,we can not sotop trhe public from using it ,it is not possible .so whast is remaininbg is to make it an official language punctually and let the experts of linguistics work on it and mould it into a form that can be fit to be used nationally.

For the first time in history , there is a social center in kericho town where the language is accept officially to be used by the peiopel .At the Kericho youth centere ,the language is among the three officiall accept languages to be used by all those  who visit the place .The languages are ,ofcourse ,English and Kiswahili.

This is a big step in the growth of the languge and soon we could be using it in public places as a language .Say ,during public celebrations or the other nationally functions .The language has started attracting attention ,especially in up country urban places and it is time that the experts of linguistics ,that in the Kiswahili and English languages ,ought to do something about it.

No one sees the language as a sign of arrogance anymore in this country especially in the up country urban places and evry body feels proud to use tit .It has become a sign of  civilization and sophistication and not whgat it was in the past .Ones any body pronounces a thing in the language ,he or she is understood straioght away that he or she is a civilized person and he or she is awarded the respects of a gentleman straight away .

LET those who deal in linguistics in our universities or the other places of that like research and see if we can introduce it in the schools or not .The thing is that sheng is already a language and there is nowhere we can go or any thinmg we can do to stop it from spreading,let us just embrace it and purify it and have as one of our national languages .

Even the Kiswahili language came about the way .IT happened when the Arabs met the firs Bantu people .This one ,happened when our fore fathers met civilization for the first time .The languages mixed up to form what we now call she.ng .There fore it is  a language already        andit is already in use  in some places in the country officially

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