Guosa is a constructed interlanguage originally created by Alex Igbineweka in 1965. It was designed to be a combination of the indigenous languages of Nigeria and to serve as a lingua franca to West Africa.
It has the following characteristics:
- It is an isolating language with subject–verb–object word order.
- There are no articles.
- There is no grammatical gender or noun class system.
- Most grammatical meaning is expressed through particles that precede the words they modify.
- Adjectives follow the noun.
- Guosa is generally prepositional.