Re: How big

Christopher B Wright wrote:
> How large were your languages when you instituted the last major change?
Hard to say, as I've made many changes of varying degrees.  Hard to say
what qualifies as major.  :-)

I think I'd have to say that my last major change was the fixing of
stress, which triggered a number of phonetic changes, including the
development of the (very rare) clusters [Swi], [Zwi], [tSwi], [dZwi],
[Cwi], which challenge the status of [S] and [Z] as allophones of /s/
and /z/ (normally, they can be analyzed as /sj/ and /zj/, but */sjwi/
and */zjwi/ would be illegal clusters.

Related to this change was the addition of the 2-syllable minimum
word-length rule which caused some one-syllable words to be lost and
replaced by others, and others to take partial reduplication when
necessary.

There've been a few, but not many, additions since then.  I have 837
words at present, so around 800 words was the size when I made my last
"major change".

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