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Re: triconsonantal roots

From:Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...>
Date:Wednesday, December 31, 2003, 19:10
Robert Jung wrote:

> 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... A complete lexicon of Biblical Hebrew (e.g. Strong's) counts about 8,000 words that use about 1,700 roots. If you have half of this number, it will be more than usable. Just my opinion. Pay attention: verbs like _qadesh_ 'to be holy', _qiddash_ 'to make holy', _hiqdish_ 'to proclaim holy', _hitqaddesh_ 'to make oneself holy' are counted as ONE WORD. -- Yitzik P.S. Could you please switch off HTML-mode in your mail, if it is possible?