Talk:Afrihili

Latest comment: 3 years ago by Likeanechointheforest in topic Use

Inconsistency in the article

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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)Reply

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)Reply

"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)Reply

vocab

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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)Reply

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)Reply

Notability

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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)Reply

Use

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

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