Re: How big
From: | Danny Wier <dawier@...> |
Date: | Wednesday, May 29, 2002, 22:54 |
Christopher B Wright wrote:
> How large were your languages when you instituted the last major change?
Tech, at this moment, consists of altered Semitic and Indo-European roots
and borrowed words from Greek and Arabic and stuff. It has a significant
vocabulary, but not much of a grammar. Just a few hundred basic roots.
Incidentally, I was just thinking today of what a "double plural" (the
Semitic broken plural of an Indo-European suffixed plural) might mean,
probably the plural of a collective of the noun: example, the word <bank>
forms a broken plural <bnuk> which itself forms a sound plural <bnuken>,
meaning "groups of banks". All these forms are tentative of course.
The Troll language LINCVA isn't a very serious project and is really only
mangled Latin, so I have as many words as I have in a Latin wordlist, the
one I got from langmaker.com.
A third conlang, Lake, has no words. I haven't started on it yet.
~Danny~