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). -- SuStel http://trimboli.name