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Conlangery #102: Afrihili

Conlangery Podcast

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The Unusual System of Learning a Language

When I read that press release, which came out in 1987, one of the things in the article is it mentioned that approximately a thousand people had learned the language to some degree that was never specified. And he may have an interest in inflating the numbers, all sorts of things. You would think that if your language has existed for 25 years, you've only had a thousand speakers, you would come up with bigger numbers to play with. But so, and you have some example text that you took directly from the book, I'm personally reading. The long example that I gloss at the end is from the newsletter that Ben should find. And you did the glossing yourself. Yes.

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