Category:African Urban Youth Languages

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:

• Amenorvi, Cosmas Rai. A Sociolinguistic Study of an Ewe-based Youth Language of Aflao, Ghana (Doctoral dissertation, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics, 2024).https://lotschool.nl/lot-680-a-sociolinguistic-study-of-an-ewe-based-youth-language-of-aflao-ghana/
• 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:

• Dovchin, Sender. "Inverted Youth Language in Mongolia as Macroscopic and Microscopic Chronotopes." In Chronotopic Identity Work, pp. 25-48. Multilingual Matters, 2019.

• German youth language
• Kanak Sprak
• Kiezdeutsch