> [mailto:CONLANG@listserv.brown.edu] On Behalf Of Jim Henry
> On 4/23/07, John Crowe <johnxcrowe@...> wrote:
>
> > I'm looking for a list of
> > absolutely-necessary-in-order-to-communicate-unambiguously
> words (to be part
> > of a lexicon)
>
> Try looking at Natural Semantic Metalanguage, and at the
lexicon of
> Toki Pona. Neither of them is an absolutely irreducible set
> -- generous
> use of opposite-derivation could reduce either of them by
> several words,
> for instance. Rick Harrison's Universal Language Dictionary
is
> a rather larger set of 1600 words/concepts in several natural
> and constructed languages; again, it's not an irreducible set
of roots
> but it might help you start making such a set.
I've found the Lojban gismu list to be very helpful too.