Re: Twenty-word language challenge
From: | Charles <catty@...> |
Date: | Thursday, June 17, 1999, 1:09 |
Jim Henry wrote:
> But Charles had already posted a draft of his.
Partly because I already knew that I needed more than 20,
having tried this before; a whole alphabet plus a few supra-segmentals.
I can't decide if vowels should be parts-of-speech or "magnitudes".
Perhaps I will cheat by "borrowing" from others ...
Further references:
Ro (100 categories):
http://www.langmaker.com/outpost/ro.htm
200-word Swadesh list:
http://www.df.lth.se/~cml/swadesh.txt
Robin Allott's primitive vocabulary:
http://www.percep.demon.co.uk/primvoc.htm
Swahili word classes:
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/swahili/concl.html#4-5
Goddard/Wierzbicka
http://apcmag.com/gusworld/nrc/thesis/ch-2.htm
I can't find a link to "aUI, the language of space",
which is a 31-word (or so) constructed language.
I have a local copy, though ...