Show threadjanPiteJansekeDec 14, 2019

Taki Taki

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r/linguistics - Can a language have „only 340 words”?

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janPiteJansekeDec 14, 2019

Taki Taki : smallest natlang
annno 2005

Language with the fewest words: Taki Taki (also called Sranan), 340 words. Taki Taki is an English-based Creole spoken by 120,000 in the South American country of Suriname.

https://www.vistawide.com/languages/language_statistics.htm

A few years later it had already some 10 000 words ...

#TakiTaki #Sranan #Surinaams #toki_lili #natlang #SmallestLanguage #minilang

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