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Language code: afh

Technical information about ISO 639 language code afh

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The table below provides technical details for the Afrihili language, designated by the afh code from the ISO 639-2 standard.

Code

afh

Name

Afrihili

Text direction

Left-to-Right

Related languages
SwahiliLingalaTwiYorubaHausa
Key facts
Invented in 1970 by Ghanaian linguist K. A. Mulindwa as a pan-African auxiliary languageName combines “Afri-” and the Swahili morpheme “-hili”, roughly ‘this African (language)’Vocabulary draws chiefly from widely spoken African tongues but follows a regular, Esperanto-like grammarEmploys Latin script with a few digraphs (gb, kp, ny, sh) to represent sounds common in AfricaUses vowel harmony and predictable stress to keep pronunciation uniform.
Sample phrase

Salamu, hu hali?

Character encodings

UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32

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The Afrihili language, identified by the code afh, falls under the 'Individual' category in terms of its scope and is classified as 'Constructed' by its type.

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