Re: Size of your dictionary
| From: | <deinx nxtxr> <deinx.nxtxr@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, April 4, 2009, 13:31 |
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Amanda Babcock Furrow wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 11:05:42AM -0400, Daniel Bowman wrote:
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>> 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."
>
> My main conlang, mërèchi, has 1232 entries in the current dictionary, but
> some of these are just names (not words), and many are affixes; still others
> are derived words. I'm beginning to include data relationships that will
> allow me to generate a dictionary where derived words are listed under their
> headwords. Mërèchi's half-sister, Mirexu, appears to have 78 morphemes
> recorded in a beta dictionary-management database I was working on, but
> I don't believe that reflects everything I created for the two relays I
> used it in; also, it can draw upon the entire mërèchi vocabulary for new
> morphemes using a simple set of sound changes.
The Deini dictionary I've been working on has no names. I made the name
dictionary into a separate document. At some point I may merge the two
but it's been easier to work on the lexicon without all those names
cluttering up the document.
> My secondary conlang, Toma Heylm, has 497 entries. The third conlang,
> Mli Vjacgu, has a token and possibly non-canon wordlist of 232 words
> (more than half of them from the gigantic table of correlatives, visible
> at
http://eaworld.conlang.org/vjatjackwa/index.html, under "Demonstrative
> pronouns"). All the rest (and arguable Mli Vjacgu as well) are sketches.
>
> This is what I have after doing this for 24 years! (With up to a decade
> of inactivity, primarily in the 90's.) I have never been very diligent
> about building vocabulary.