Re: Yitzik and Basilius met in Kiev

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.

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James W.

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