Re: My Lists

Mia Soderquist wrote:


>I have been working on a side project lately, making up vocabulary lists to
>be used for future conlang projects or for filling out older projects. I
>sat down this morning and committed my first few lists to the web. They are
>at http://papasody.com/conlangish/lists.html
>
It's a useful way of doing it.  The first several hundred words of Kash were
derived from similar lists; and I had to make up a similar one (about 1200
items) for research in Indonesia (unaware at the time that there was such a
list already in existence, though no longer in print or available, dating
from the late 19th Cent.-- the Holle Blanco Lists, which were sent to
teachers, administrators/military, missionaries etc. all around the islands.
Respondents were supposed to follow a fixed system of transcription, but
many amateurs did not, with the result that some lists require a lot of
"creative interpretation"......never mind the difficulties of reading 19th
C. handwriting and resulting printers' errors)