Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Sheng

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Sheng Wikipedia[edit]

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This request has not necessarily been rejected, and new requests are welcome. This decision was taken by the language committee in accordance with the Language proposal policy.

The closing committee member provided the following comment:

This discussion was created before the implementation of the Language proposal policy, and it is incompatible with the policy. Please open a new proposal in the format this page has been converted to (see the instructions). Do not copy discussion wholesale, although you are free to link to it or summarise it (feel free to copy your own comments over). —{admin} Pathoschild 22:02:02, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
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  • Number of speakers: 2,000,000
  • Locations spoken: Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania

  • we are still trying to get Kenyans to understand the wiki.
  • Sheng is a slang trnslation of Kiswahili (Swahili)

It is mainly spoken by Kenyan youth. For those who have issues with Sheng, accept the fact that even the Kenyan president, Mwai Kibaki[[1]]) speaks sheng... Mjienjoy!!! 60% of Kenyans are between the ages 18-30. Thats about 15,000,000 'youth'. 2,000,000 Sheng speakers is conservative.

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