Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Sheng

Sheng Wikipedia

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Proposal summary
Language details: Sheng (sheng [invented]) Editing community: Kenyan (P) List your user name if you're interested in editing the wiki. Add "N" next to your name if you are a native speaker of this language. Relevant pages: — External links: africanlanguages.com g21.net yale.edu blinkbits.com reference.com
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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.

Support

Support although Sheng is a slang, slang is language. Oscarcwk 11:46, 25 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose

Oppose because it is a street slang with many variants. I have the impression that Sheng is broken Swahili mixed with any other language that the speakers know. It's not an established language, it's more like a pidgin in creation. -- Rasulo
On top of that, it is hardly ever written and the Swahili Wikipedia is far from flourishing at the moment. Imo we should focus on getting the regular Swahili Wikipedia up and running before even thinking of opening one in Sheng. Steinbach (formerly Caesarion) 10:01, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. There's nothing wrong about colloquial language (->"youth culture"), of course. But encyclopedias generally use more formal language, for good reasons. Plus we don't do Wikipedias for specific age groups. --ARBE0 15:10, 16 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose No to slangs --Taichi - (あ！) 05:51, 22 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. I don't think an encyclopedia in slang is going to work. — mark ✎ 09:08, 4 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose Whalefish 13:48, 8 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose till practically all wikipedias in 'languages' of Africa are dead, so it's what will happen to it + no test wiki -- Raghav 14:49, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose -- I don't want slang wikipedia forever!! Rakuten06 14:57, 15 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]