Re: Semitic root word list?

>  > So far I haven't found anything really usable. The best
>  > list I've found for Arabic is at
>  > http://www.studyquran.co.uk/PRLonline.htm, but its format
>  > is not easily altered for input to a Perl script, and
>  > many of the roots listed don't have meanings given, just
>  > a list of references from the Koran. Anybody have any
>  > better ideas?
>  >
>
> You might want to ask at
> <westasianconlangs@...>.
> Mail me offlist if you want me to do it for you.
Well, I wound up biting the bullet and doing it myself based on the
list at studyquran.co.uk, writinga pair of perl scripts to strip out
HTML and the awful formatting of the existing list, and then assigning
Anmur roots to the meanings. Downside: it took me several hours.
Upside: in only a few hours my Anmur vocab went from ~10 roots to
~800. Woot!

If anyone is interested in the list of roots, contact me off-list, as
I'd be glad to send it on. I'm sure it would be useful to other
conlangers.


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