Re: Size of your dictionary

There are about 200 Central Mountain roots, from which all actual word-forming
elements are derived; I've found this to be sufficient.  There are about 7500
words total, split between six different languages.

--- On Fri, 4/3/09, Daniel Bowman <danny.c.bowman@...> wrote:

> From: Daniel Bowman <danny.c.bowman@...>
> Subject: Size of your dictionary
> To: CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu
> Date: Friday, April 3, 2009, 11:05 AM
> Hello all-
>
> How many words does your conlang(s) have?  I realize
> that this might be a
> tricky question to answer depending on how you define
> "word."
>
> Angosey currently has about 770.  Maybe a quarter of
> these are "dead" words
> that I don't really use from day to day.  I've
> committed maybe half to
> memory, although now that I'm keeping a diary, my
> memorization is lagging
> behind.
>
> Also, how do you keep your dictionary organized?  I
> wrote an excel macro
> that allows me to enter words and also search by word,
> grammatical type, and
> English keyword.  I can make it available if other
> people want to use it,
> but it may be a while-it's not working correctly yet!
>
> Danny
>