Re: Tiny lexicon languages

Sally Caves <scaves@...> wrote:
>
> Twenty-word sparrow language:
>
>
>         1. food
>         2. eat
>         3. sleep
>         4. mate
>         5. egg
>         6. chick
>         7. fly
>         8. perch
>         9. feather
>         10. danger
>         11. rival
>         12. fight
>         13. hurt
>         14. dead
>         15. ground
>         16. me
>         17. you
>         18. other
>         19. not
>         20. many
>
/snip/
> And so it goes... the bird conlanger hard at work in her book-lined
> study...
I love the idea! I definitely like to imagine such
things as a bird language, or a dolphin language, or
sugar glider language :) [1]. I think I'll pass on
the 20-word language challenge however; I only enjoy
expanding, not reducing, a lexicon.


[1] Mia, are you there? I think I found a picture of a
sugar glider in a magazine, only I hadn't paid attention;
it's labelled 'ardilla azucarera' or something like that...
If a baby sugar glider is a hairless cross of a rat and
a kangaroo with long-fingered hands that can barely hug
a thumb, then the picture I saw was one.

--Pablo Flores