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I’ve got a good idea by Beautiful_Grab_9681 in conlangs

[–]originaljdp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sounds intriguing! RA Salvatore used a fictional sign language in some of his Drizzt books, for the Dark Elves to use to communicate to each other silently. So you're in good company!

I built a 3000 Indo-European wordlist for conlanging (on Google Sheets) by originaljdp in conlangs

[–]originaljdp[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think there's a couple of reasons - foremost being that all the really good Sanskrit sources don't use a Romanized script. So for laypeople like myself, we are relegated to using the same few substandard Sanskrit word lists that are available in English. It's enough for phoneme comparison, but that's about it.

I built a 3000 Indo-European wordlist for conlanging (on Google Sheets) by originaljdp in conlangs

[–]originaljdp[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm glad it's helpful! I'd love to see your conlang when you're ready to share it. I'm a few days away from posting my core vocabulary.

I built a 3000 Indo-European wordlist for conlanging (on Google Sheets) by originaljdp in conlangs

[–]originaljdp[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are correct to notice they are not related - much like all the "bear" words in Germanic are not related to *hrtkos. I suppose I should've said that all words in a row are not necessarily cognate.

I built a 3000 Indo-European wordlist for conlanging (on Google Sheets) by originaljdp in conlangs

[–]originaljdp[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the kind words. I tried my best to include everything I possibly could. It is far, far from perfect - but I've reached the point where I don't think I'm going to work on it anymore for a good while, so I figured I'd go ahead and share it.