Do you create oligosynthetic conlangs? You used "surpassed" in the past tense . . . is it just that you're a scrapper?Zio Zihk wrote:Good job, I don't think any of my conlangs surpassed 50 words.
Thanks for telling me "good job", by the way.
Do you create oligosynthetic conlangs? You used "surpassed" in the past tense . . . is it just that you're a scrapper?Zio Zihk wrote:Good job, I don't think any of my conlangs surpassed 50 words.
*posts*Khemehekis wrote:Thanks! Post here when you reach the 2.0k mark!kadani wrote:Congrats! Rejistanian has only 1.7k words at the moment.
Yay!kadani wrote:*posts*Khemehekis wrote:Thanks! Post here when you reach the 2.0k mark!kadani wrote:Congrats! Rejistanian has only 1.7k words at the moment.
Well, if I were counting the words, I wouldn't count "-vadrij" or "-fuviya", but I would count all the words you coined with those suffixes, such as "ornithology" or "arachnophobia".Colzie wrote:I have just reached 2000 words with Rudan; the 2000th word is candalt, "beet". This is counting some regular derivation affixes, like -vadrij "-ology" and -fuviya "phobia", so maybe I don't really hit the milestone for a couple more words.
It's part of my 'massive revision' and I'm pretty happy with how it's turning out. I'm getting some good details now. I'd say 60% of it is all examples though. I'll probably have 20-25 when I finish though.Khemehekis wrote:Congratulations!
The grammar must be pretty rich by now.
Once you have about fifty pages, you'll be able to handle about anything.
Same here. I've been working on the sound changes of a small branch of IE languages for the past however many months and trying to work out the inflectional morphology at the same time, at least in theory anyway to the point where I've ended up with about 8 languages which each have a total of around of maybe 10-20 words each.Nortaneous wrote:None of mine have any words yet because I spent around a month on the phonology for one and I've spent all the time past that on the diachronics for the other.
You definitely deserve congratulations for that. That's more detailed than some of the descriptive grammars of natlangs I've seen. Not to mention your ridiculously huge lexicon. (Seriously 23,000? You should write a book in Kankonian.)Khemehekis wrote:Well, I just opened it in a word-processing program and my grammar of Kankonian is 50 pages long now. Granted, I devote 3 pages of this "grammar" to pronunciation, and also have sections on "fluff" topics like borrowings, literature and gestures, and some of it is semantic stuff like color words, kinship terms and ageing terms, but that is a longer grammar than your average conlang gets. Plus, I can translate and compose a lot. A LOT.
Definitely appreciate small milestones :) I'm only at 50 words (numbers 1-10, 1,00 and 1,000, some words for animals and birds and 3 words for different kinds of boats and a few words for "sea, ocean") and only sorted out the nominal and adjectival morphology a few days ago despite working on the languages for over a year now :p I've only today, for example, reached a point where I can translate your first sentence:Bristel wrote:I have 2 words that are fully declinable in Teskwan now :D
Great job! And it doesn't sound like a wild guess to me, but rather an extrapolation.Yagia1 wrote: Wild guess on the total vocabulary up to now: about 7000-7100.
But they still count as words when you're doing a lexicon count, right?A certain number would be regular derivational formations.
Idioms are one of the most fun-providing parts!I still enjoy creating new words. Mostly when I feel existing ones do not "feel nice" or seem to violate lexical or phonological rules. Over the years, word formation has become more predictable and less at random. Vocabulary seems to stabilize. Idiomatic expressions, proverbs and so on begin to come up.