Re: help please: creating a Semitic-ish conlang

At 02:24 23.12.2003, Robert Jung wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>How many root concepts would one need for a functional
>three-consonantal-root, Arabic-ish (or Hebrew-ish etc.),
>usable conlang? I think it'd be cool to create such a lang,
>but I dunno where to start...
>
>--Robert
How would the number of roots needed for a tri-consonantal-root
language differ from the number of roots needed for a language
with another root structure?

AFAMOCIC Sohlob has 1250 CVC verbal roots, including a good
number of near synonyms.  Add to that some 50 pronominal/
numeral/determiner roots and about a hundred adjectival
roots for such things as color (which are morphologically
treated the same as verbal roots).  There are, by design,
not very many primary nominal roots.

/BP 8^)
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