Afrihili
Afrihili is a constructed language designed in 1970 by K. A. Kumi Attobrah to be used as a lingua franca in all of Africa. The name of the language is a combination of Africa and Swahili.
Afrihili draws its phonology, morphology and syntax from various African languages. The lexicon is also supposed to cover as many African languages as possible, but etymologies of no single words are indicated by the author.
The language uses the Latin alphabet with the addition of two vowel symbols, and , which denote the same sounds as in IPA, namely open-mid front and back vowels, as in several Western African languages like Ewe and Yorùbá. The grammar is quite complex compared to most auxiliary languages of Indo-european basis, involving complicated tense distictions and use of infixes.
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. The plural, then, is formed by exchanging the initial and final vowels.
References
- K. A. Kumi Attobrah: Ni Afrihili Oluga. The African Continental Language (1973)