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African Urban Youth Languages refers to the category of non-standard forms of speaking found in many African cities. This broad category is described by the following:

  • Hollington, Andrea, and Nico Nassenstein. "From the Hood to Public Discourse: The Social Spread of African Youth Languages." Anthropological Linguistics 59, no. 4 (2017): 390–413.
  • Hurst, Ellen. "Language Birth." In The Oxford Handbook of African Languages, ed. by Rainer Vossen and Gerrit Dimmendaal, 843-857. Oxford University Press.
  • Kerswill, Paul. "Youth languages in Africa and Europe: Linguistic subversion or emerging vernaculars." Language Change: The Interplay of Internal, External and Extralinguistic Factors. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter (2010): 117–202.
  • Kerswill, Paul, and Heike Wiese, eds. Urban Contact Dialects and Language Change: Insights from the Global North and South. Routledge, 2022.
  • Kiessling, Roland and Maarten Mous. 2004. Urban Youth Languages in Africa. Anthropological Linguistics Vol. 46, No. 3: 303–341.
  • Meyerhoff, Miriam. "Baby steps in decolonising linguistics: Urban language research." In Urban Contact Dialects and Language Change, pp. 145-157. Routledge, 2022.
  • Nassenstein, Nico, and Andrea Hollington, eds. Youth language practices in Africa and beyond. Walter de Gruyter, 2015.
  • Nassenstein, Nico, and Andrea Hollington. "Global repertoires and urban fluidity: youth languages in Africa." International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2016, no. 242 (2016): 171–193.
  • Reuster-Jahn, Uta, and Roland Kießling. "Tanzania: Lugha ya Mitaani." In Urban Contact Dialects and Language Change, pp. 167-185. Routledge, 2022.
  • Rudd, Philip W. 2018. The invisible niche of AUYL [African Urban Youth Language]. In Tracing Language Movement in Africa, edited by Ericka A. Albaugh and Kathryn M. de Luna, pp. 277-294. Oxford University Press.
  • Salmons, Joseph. "Variation, complexity and the richness of urban contact dialects." In Urban Contact Dialects and Language Change, pp. 158-163. Routledge, 2022.
  • Youth Languages in other parts of the world:

    See also[edit]

    Pages in category "African Urban Youth Languages"

    The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.

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