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The beauty of Sheng is in its changing form- Linguistics Professor

There will never be a standard version of Sheng', the dialect widely spoken in Kenya.

This, according to Professor Peter Githinji, Associate Professor at Kenyatta University specializing in Sociolinguistics, is the reason Sheng' will never be like English and Swahili.

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