[tlhIngan Hol] number of words

[SuStel]

On 11/22/2019 8:38 AM, Will Martin wrote:
> I wonder how Klingon vocabulary stacks up against other artificial 
> languages, especially those created and maintained by a single person.
>
> I doubt there are any Tolkien languages that come close.

I've seen estimates that Quenya has around 2,000 words and Sindarin has 
around 1,200 — it's tough to count in part because Tolkien was 
constantly evolving his languages, and in part because he often worked 
with word stems rather than fully inflected words. But Elvish was never 
intended to be popularly spoken; it was the philological plaything of 
Tolkien. What it lacks in versatility it makes up for in depth. Tolkien 
invented entire etymologies and histories of his words, deriving how 
they changed from early Quendi forms into Queyna and Sindarin (and others).

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