Date: Mon, 27 Feb 1995 04:42:25 +0100
Comment: Issues related to constructed languages
Originator: conlang@diku.dk
Errors-To: thorinn@diku.dk
From: philip@storcomp.demon.co.uk (Philip Hugh Hunt)
Subject: Re: re: LAadan

In message <199502260507.AAA80489@seminole.gate.net> conlang@diku.dk writes:
> What is the 'standard fieldwork `core vocabulary''?  Is there actually
> a standardised list of core concepts used by linguists, or does each
> linguist assemble her own?

_The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language_, page 331 has:

I you we this that who what not all many one two big long small woman
man person fish bird dog louse tree seed leaf bark skin flesh blood bone
grease egg horn tail feather hair head ear eye nose mouth tooth tongue
claw foot knee hand belly neck breasts heart liver drink eat bite see
hear know sleep die kill swim fly walk come lie sit stand give say sun 
moon star water rain stone sand earth cloud smoke fire ash burn path
mountain red green yellow white black night hot cold full new good
round dry name

A total of 100 words.
-- 
Phil Hunt...philip@storcomp.demon.co.uk
Majority rule for Britain!