[Fwd: lexicons]

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This shoulda been forwarded to the list...

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Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 12:55:10 -0600
From: Tom Wier <artabanos@...>
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nicole wrote:

> Since I'm only working on my first conlang, I really have no experience
> on which words to include in my lexicon (which words are most common,
> most "important," etc.).  Are there any word lists online of common
> English words?  The categories from Lingua Ignota were helpful, but
> specific words would be more so.  Thanks.
You should probably do a seach on the internet about the "Swadesh List"
or "Morris Swadesh".  He was a linguist earlier in this century who did some
work in historical linguistics using a set of words that he hypothesized every
related language would have in common (the more words two languages have
in common, in terms of being cognates, the more closely related the two languages
will be).  For your work, though, it will be good on just knowing what words
you should have to include in your basic vocabularies.

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