
Conlangery #80: Zonal Auxlangs
Conlangery Podcast
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What's So Special About Swahili?
It's likely that there is stuff from Akan languages and also Ewe in the language, which I think is his native language. But it's like sweet Swahili without the very complicated class system. The verb system just looks like he bent tortured a lot in English. And then the conditionals and the subjectives are a little bit less Englishy. To me, the most interesting part is just the derivational system because it's definitely not English.
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