Re: Size of your dictionary

This has always been a difficult question to answer for Itlani.  The  lexicon 
is arranged as a bilingual dictionary on Excel. 
 
There are presently 13111 entries.  This includes, names, geographical  
features, affixes etc.  As Itlani uses compound words and is primarily  
aggluntinative most words are not roots but derived.
 
There are multiple entries so that an English speaking student of Itlani  can 
find an English equavalent or equivalents for every English word  listed.  Ex:
 
honesty - aán
integrity - aán
uprightness - aán
 
The Itlani see all these concepts as one.  So in the Itlani-English  side you 
will find:
 
aán - honesty
aán - integrity
aán - uprightness
 
I have yet to calculate the number of Itlani roots in the lexicon.
 
Itlani:
 
Iíd ishi zaradizhe disueshkit latsag resh ta Itlanit sholey onyava.   Ta 
gadansál kiinizhe zarsholit gadansál nulakivit Ekselilu onyara.
 
Tsorni onyaren 13111 dinifelivenú.  Lugavyiren, ta mishtaratú, ta  birnirit 
dlinú, gadanit teynifelenú, via.  Var ta Itlanit shól ta  loshafit gadanovó 
igüayara vey oyanamizhe iglaatsit onyara ta archád ta  gadanú ravangadanú 
ruzayizhe sitagivit onyaren.
 
 
In a message dated 4/6/2009 3:59:35 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
njenfalgar@GMAIL.COM writes:

2009/4/3  Daniel Bowman <danny.c.bowman@...>

> 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."

I used to work on a personal language of sorts,  'õSet'akhtü Njèènshwajgarr,
where I reached about 500 words. It was a  rather experimental language, just
trying out some stuff before I ever  discovered linguistics and universals
and the like. The result is rather  unnatural, and when I realized that, I
kind of abandoned the  language.

My other conlangs are made for use in stories I write, and  some of them have
a lexicon of exactly one proper name -- the name of a  character. The more
quantitive languages reach maybe in the  hundred.

If you want to see big numbers, ask me for the number of  languages I have.
:-)

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
>
Usually, I have a handwritten list of words, listen in  the order I have
invented them in. Now and then I copy them to something  computerized,
ordening them as I do so. Up to now, I have always used MS  Word, but one day
I decided I would use more advanced stuff -- for  automatic ordening and the
like. Since then, I have computerized absolutely  nothing, as those more
advanced methods I was envisaging also need more  time to set up -- and time
is a commodity I don't have much to spare  of.

Greets
David

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