African Urban Youth Languages

African Urban Youth Languages is an umbrella term for languages formed and spoken in the urban areas of Africa that have resulted from language contact in their populations that has been caused by migration into cities in the latter part of the 20th century. It encompasses languages such as Camfranglais, Indoubil, Lingla ya Bayankee, Nouchi, Sheng, and Engsh. There is some degree of linguistic prejudice against calling these languages, but they are not pidgins nor creole languages. They have been variously named "urban vernaculars" or "urban youth languages" in linguistic literature, although the name African Urban Youth Language, coined for a linguistics conference in Cape Town in 2013, has come to be the accepted name, not least because of the simplicity of its acronym AUYL.

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