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What is the minimum number of words needed for a conlang?What would the minimum number of words needed for a conlang, while still being able to speak with about the same level of information passed as a natural language?
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Should I use “double o” in Toki Pona?In Toki Pona, the small word o has several meanings. In the official book Toki Pona: The Language of Good, it says The particle o has three uses: (1) after a noun phrase to show who is being ...
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Do I really need plural grammatical number when my conlang deals with existence and uniqueness?I continued building my conlang, and it's time to deal with grammars of nouns. In my conlang, nouns are categorized into three: countable, measurable, and abstract. This question is about countable ...
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What is the word “li” in Toki pona, grammatically?In Toki pona, words are never inflected, and many words can act as a noun, verb or adjective in different contexts. The word "li" usually separates the subject from a predicate, and “e” goes before ...
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Are there any sites you can use to develop an online course for your own conlang?Creating a conlang is usually only half (or less than half!) of the necessary effort: someone has to be able to learn it, unless you want to keep it as your own private secret code. I use Duolingo to ...
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Does Esperanto have any words that mean more than one thing?Looking at the "about Esperanto" page, I see this line: While he realized that a common language would not end the cultural barrier, it would enable ordinary people, not politicians, to have cross ...
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Grammar concepts required for every conlangIs there a method to make sure that a constructed language contains all the necessary grammar concepts, e.g. to make sure that a concept like genitive case or a construct state is present? For ...
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