Talk:Afrihili

Inconsistency in the article
The article states that "One of Afrihili's special features is that all nouns begin with and end in a vowel, by which the nouns can be distinguished from other word classes." (italics mine)  However, several of the examples give nouns which begin with consonants and end with vowels. Examples:
 * Zuri lu... Good day
 * Zuri zinga... Good morning
 * Zuri masa... Good afternoon
 * Zuri dani... Good evening
 * Zuri bali... Good night

Even assumin gthat only the first and last vowels would be switched to create a plural, for at least one of these - masa, meaning afternoon, the plural would be exactly the same as the singular.

Perhaps someone with a solid knowledge of Afrihili can clarify this. - LeeNapier 16:24, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

Been some time, but: Times of the day are simply not regarded nouns in Afrihili. 90.136.28.175 (talk) 12:08, 2 January 2010 (UTC)


 * "A day" is alu, for example, pl. presumably ulu. So, yeah, maybe they're considered adverbs in these expressions. — kwami (talk) 17:15, 29 May 2011 (UTC)

vocab
This isn't wiktionary, but I want to keep track of the roots I've been able to determine, so they're going here. Much is from the 1971 newsletter, however, and I don't know how much was revised in the 1973 edition of the book. (Thus the question marks: the left margin is clipped on p. 2.) — kwami (talk) 17:42, 29 May 2011 (UTC)


 * A quick look through an Ewe vocabulary list seems to indicate that's a source language, too. — WmAnnis (talk) 12:45, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

Notability
Enough to be assigned an ISO code and for Blench to cover it. That's a much as we get for many obscure languages. Also notable for being one of very few African conlangs, which tend to be a Western thing these days. — kwami (talk) 21:45, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Use
Did it see some use beyond its author? --Error (talk) 21:10, 29 November 2015 (UTC)


 * I'd also like to know about critical or political response to this language. Likeanechointheforest (talk) 18:01, 15 March 2021 (UTC)