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Re: Yitzik and Basilius met in Kiev

From:James W. <emindahken@...>
Date:Thursday, March 1, 2007, 13:53
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 02:21:37 -0500, "Roger Mills" <rfmilly@...> said:

> My > experience devising a wordlist for research in Indonesia helped-- it was > categorized by Numbers/Quantifiers--the Household--Body part--Kin > terms--Nature---then mixed lists of Verbs--Adjectives and finally > Pronouns/Sentential adverbs. Having that in the back of my mind really > helped; also the fact that the derivation systems of Kash and Indonesian > are > rather similar. That wordlist BTW is available online-- > http://cinduworld.tripod.com/wordlist.txt (thanks to BP Jonsson for > html-izing it!!) and might be helpful to others. It happens also to > contain > all the words of the 200-word Swadesh list, though they aren't marked > (they > were in the original).
Thanks for this list! I'm going to run a Perl script to strip the Kash and use it to build my a:seka`eni vocab. I've made a more or less comprehensive list of the possible roots up to 3 syllables (199,000+ :) ) and made a spreadsheet choose them at random. When I see roots come up that I particularly like, I make a note of them, then when I need words, I go to that list. Works pretty well for me. -------- James W.

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