The Damin lexicon cannot be rich in the usual sense of having large numbers of lexical items denoting concepts of great specificity (like the ordinary Lardil or English vocabulary, for example). Rather, the richness of Damin is of a different sort, the opposite of this in fact. Damin lexical items are abstract names of logically cohesive families of concepts. The richness of Damin resides in the semantic breadth of its lexical items, permitting a small inventory (less than 200 items) to accommodate the same range of concepts as does the much larger ordinary vocabulary (of unknown size).
(p.207)
Endangered Languages: Language Loss and Community Response
Whaly Lidsay J, Lenore A. Grenoble, Lindsay J. Whaley, Grenoble Lenore a.
Cambridge University Press, 26 March 1998 - 361 pp.
https://books.google.be/books?id=6BPWHQihzw4C
#Damin #Tamin #concepts #level200 #selo200 #konlan