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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 ...