Lexicon milestones and discussion of lexicon growth

[Khemehekis]

The lexis of Rireinutire has 2534 lexemes, 4022 glosses. Word #2500 was siva 'corpse'.

I hear 2,500 is considered the cut-off point for when your language's vocabulary is sizeable enough to carry on fluent everyday conversations.

[eldin raigmore]

The lexis of Rireinutire has 2534 lexemes, 4022 glosses. Word #2500 was siva 'corpse'.

I hear 2,500 is considered the cut-off point for when your language's vocabulary is sizeable enough to carry on fluent everyday conversations.

How often do you need to talk about a corpse or corpses? Surely not every day.
Even if you're cooking or carving or butchering a whole animal -- say, a turkey or a chicken, or maybe a lamb -- wouldn't you talk about a carcass rather than a corpse?
I don't know, though; maybe Rireinutire is spoken by people like House Greyjoy of the Iron Islands. Or something.

[Lao Kou]

I hear 2,500 is considered the cut-off point for when your language's vocabulary is sizeable enough to carry on fluent everyday conversations.

How often do you need to talk about a corpse or corpses? Surely not every day.
Even if you're cooking or carving or butchering a whole animal -- say, a turkey or a chicken, or maybe a lamb -- wouldn't you talk about a carcass rather than a corpse?

In Géarthnuns, you can converse about dipping either a carcass or a corpse in a woad-based dye any day you like (while frying up some snail darters, no less).

Spoiler:

I suppose the conversation would come to a grinding halt if you asked me where I put your galoshes, though.

[prettydragoon]

The lexis of Rireinutire has 2534 lexemes, 4022 glosses. Word #2500 was siva 'corpse'.

I hear 2,500 is considered the cut-off point for when your language's vocabulary is sizeable enough to carry on fluent everyday conversations.

w00t! Uh... I guess that kinda presupposes you haven't padded the lexicon with long lists of kinship terms, titles of nobility, military ranks, or other such specialised vocabulary. But yes, if you need to instruct some yokels in the scientific way of purchasing their roundtrip tickets and finding their seats in the passenger car, you can surely do that in Rireinutire. Or talk about traditional funerals.

[kiwikami]

Castian just hit 500 roots with g-zh-r-(h) (to vocalize/make noise).

Hooray.

[Ralph]

Finally gotten round to listing all the Sakata words I've coined in various places in one file. Turns out I have over 100 already!

[DesEsseintes]

The 160th entry in the Sokoan lexicon is 'Āveineika' meaning small temple. I'm aiming for 200 words by this weekend...

[Aseca]

Latest lexicon update: v-n (to grow, flourish), ph-r (to make way for, clarify), k-m (to name, call someone sthng)

These three verb roots can decline to form nouns:
vāna (tool/means/instrument of flourishment - forest)
phārNa (tool/means/instrument of making way - window)
kāmna (tool/means of naming - ego)

Also, they can decline to form other nouns such as:
unugā (unugar, land of flourishment)
vaNya (vunrya, one who flourishes, natural leader)
phrTak (pritrak, a clearing, a clarity)
kama/kata (name, identity)

Capitalized consonants (N, T) are retroflex consonants.

[zee]

Reached 600 words in Ejnoq !

The 600th word is: segundre (verb.) - to smile

[clawgrip]

Himmaswa script has now passed 1000 characters. The language also has nearly 2000 entries in the lexicon.

Spoiler:

[wintiver]

Himmaswa is just fantastic. It's script is phenomenally done. Its vowel system is just amazing and the phonotactics are difficult for my English speaking mouth to muster but I mean that in the best possible way.

Do you have a dictionary up? I'd like to see what you have for lexicon if possible.

[clawgrip]

Thanks, I'm happy that you like it.

I had a very partial, in-depth dictionary that I made, but it is slightly out of date now, and the main lexicon is only stored offline.

[Creyeditor]

Omlűt reached 120 words a few days ago. The 120th word is "thurp" [tʰurp](masc) which means something like "cloth strip". Interestingly, it also means "half" (the noun).

[Ilocar]

Rhûnido, by my current reckoning, has 365 words, most recent coinage being lur /ɺuɹ/ or /ɺuɾ/ "cloth," "garment," or "cover"

the grammar is polysynthetic, and nearly complete, have probably ten or so more agglutinating particles. most recent gramatical addition was a new šote dhekin /'ʃotɛ 'ðɛkin/ (a two-word grammatical structure that implies a relationship between the two words) lit. "sentence of two" with verbs that implies causal relationship.

Examples:
ido lakisi /'ido ɺä'kisi/
language raptor-(mass/collective plural)
"bird of prey language" or "language of the birds of prey"

šubarzi mëlinda /ʃu'bäɹzi me'ɺindä/
help-(uninflected) try-(verbal noun of action)
"trying to help"

as of this post, though I had to figure the word for "bird of prey" and I official decided to use the word šote from an earlier version of the language, so I guess I have 367 words, the newest being lak(i) /ɺäk/ or /'ɺäki/ meaning "raptor," "kite," "hawk," "eagle," or "bird of prey"

[kingdemon]

Woohoo! The Anjelv lexicon is complete!
......at 116 words. :D
Of course, I still have to come up with all the idioms to fill in those missing words.
*sigh* So much to do...not enough time to do it. :)

[Golahet]

Idioms also count as lexical entries.

But ... Anjelv, is it oligosynthetic? I am interested to know what 116 words you have chosen for it. And I am interested to know how you chose them.

Edit: I found the link in the Anjelv thread. Reading now.

[Click]

Kaipó today reached 500 words, with popo [poβo] 'child's play'!

*makes popcorn and launches fireworks*

[Sangfroidish]

I too have just reached 500 words, with the addition of nÿrch (bat). \o/

[benjamino59]

Yay!

My conlang Yi does now have 100 words! The 100th word was bygar (building-art), meaning architecture.

The most complex and useless word in my dictionary so far is arpapvæspenil (art-paper-fluid-stick-person), meaning a person who makes paint brushes for a living.

I just felt like sharing this great moment in the history of my conlang!

[Creyeditor]

You're not the first one
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