Re: triconsonantal roots
| From: | Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, December 31, 2003, 19:10 |
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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
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