Tom Wier wrote:
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> nicole wrote:
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> > Since I'm only working on my first conlang, I really have no experience
> > on which words to include in my lexicon (which words are most common,
> > most "important," etc.). Are there any word lists online of common
> > English words? The categories from Lingua Ignota were helpful, but
> > specific words would be more so. Thanks.
>
> You should probably do a seach on the internet about the "Swadesh List"
> or "Morris Swadesh". He was a linguist earlier in this century who did some
> work in historical linguistics using a set of words that he hypothesized every
> related language would have in common (the more words two languages have
> in common, in terms of being cognates, the more closely related the two languages
> will be). For your work, though, it will be good on just knowing what words
> you should have to include in your basic vocabularies.
Thanks for the ideas as to what to include, if anyone else might be
interested the Swadesh List can be found at
http://www.df.lth.se/~cml/swadesh.txt
with an explanation of what it was meant to be used for.
-Nicole
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