Re: the smallest dictionary
| From: | Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, June 21, 2005, 11:15 |
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Hi!
David Fernandez-Nieto <yulerippo@...> writes:
> i am interested in languages (conlangs and natlangs) that have
> specially small (and complete) dictionaries. can you inform about
> it. thanks.
First of all: welcome to the list!
I don't know about natlangs, but the conlang Toki Pona is known for
it's small inventory of words (around 150 IIRC) and still being
complete. However, there was some discussion about whether it's
*really* usefully complete. E.g. in order to talk about maths (at has
no precise number system), science, religion, law, economy,
philosophy, ... Probably not.
**Henrik
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