Re: How big

 --- Christopher B Wright wrote:

> The three questions, therefore, are:
> What is the ratio between size and morphability?
That depends merely on the kind of language we are dealing with and on the
character of its creator. Personally, I most certainly belong to the category
of inflexional fetishists. When I start with a new language, I begin with the
numerals and the tables. Words take the second place. And after creating some
words, I might begin to think about phonology and eventually translate some
simple texts, that will slowly produce more vocabulary.
But I have seen that in many cases it works the other way round.

> How large were your languages when you instituted the last major change?
> and What word(s) should I deform / combine to make the word "simple"?
My Hattic is currently stuck on 1,250 words. But I must add, that many of those
words are derivatives, while some Very Important Words are still lacking.

> (The main change I was planning was to add two letters, z /Z/ and y /j/,
> which would really be separating the /g/ allophones and the /i/
> allophones, unless I should use |'s. I was also considering retranslating
> the corpus and perhaps doing a few grammatical modifications.)
I remember I made on such "correction" to Hattic. I did retranslate some words,
but I was careful not to affect the existing translations I had already made.

Jan


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