The current vocabulary is only experimental; the only sure root is √tlongr attested by Kornbluth. We have now four variants of experimental vocabularies:
Wordlists are translated also to other languages:
The original goal of this analyzer was to implement the algorithm for reconstruction of the underlying 6-letter root from a 4-letter word.
Now it contains also a tree of sorts, parts and derived forms. The words with green underline are clickable and allow to browse the lexicon.
If a translated word is not found in the dictionary, the result is the source word prefixed with the source language code separated by a semicolon. Such prefixed word can be entered for translation and its prefix overrides the is selected language.
The language of the Thetis VIII planet's sea-going folk was first shortly mentioned by Kornbluth, Cyril M. (*1924 †1958 (+ 70 = 2028)) in January 1952 in That Share of Glory.
Young Alen, one of a thousand in the huge refectory, ate absent-mindedly as the reader droned into the perfect silence of the hall. Today's lesson happened to be a word-list of the Thetis VIII planet's sea-going folk.
"Tlon—a ship," droned the reader.
"Rtlo—some ships, number unknown.
"Long—some ships, number known, always modified by cardinal.
"Ongr—a ship in a collection of ships, always modified by ordinal.
"Ngrt—first ship in a collection of ships; an exception to ongr."
A lay brother tiptoed to Alen's side. "The Rector summons you," he whispered.
24 phonemes in 6 series and 3 grades. A phoneme cannot be followed by a phoneme of the same grade. The first and last phoneme of a word cannot be of the same grade.
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P | b | g | d | k | p | t |
| R | m | r | n | l | w | j |
| V | o | a | e | y | u | i |
| root | sg. | card. | ord. | first | last | pl. | P | R | V |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PRVRPR | PRVR | RVRP | VRPR | RPRP | PRPR | RPRV | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| PVPRPV | PVPR | VPRP | PRPV | RPVP | PVPV | VPVP | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| RVPVRV | RVPV | VPVR | PVRV | VRVR | RVRV | VRVP | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Numerals stay after the cardinal or ordinal form of countables.
The meanings of Segof words are assigned to the wordlist pseudorandomly shuffled with a linear congruential generator.
x[n] = (a x[n - 1] + c) mod m
When c ≠ 0, correctly chosen parameters allow a period equal to m, for all seed values. This will occur if and only if:
These three requirements are referred to as the Hull–Dobell Theorem.
This form may be used with any m, but only works well for m with many repeated prime factors, such as a power of 2; using a computer's word size is the most common choice. If m were a square-free integer, this would only allow a ≡ 1 (mod m), which makes a very poor PRNG; a selection of possible full-period multipliers is only available when m has repeated prime factors.
Although the Hull–Dobell theorem provides maximum period, it is not sufficient to guarantee a good generator. For example, it is desirable for a − 1 to not be any more divisible by prime factors of m than necessary. Thus, if m is a power of 2, then a − 1 should be divisible by 4 but not divisible by 8.
The generator is not sensitive to the choice of c, as long as it is relatively prime to the modulus (e.g. if m is a power of 2, then c must be odd), so the value c=1 is commonly chosen.
In our case, m = 1296 = 2^4 * 3^4, thus has many repeated prime factors and works well; a = 13 = (4 * 3) + 1.
The meanings of Segof words are assigned to the pseudo-randomly shuffled Basic English combined word-list, which actually contains 2626 words and combines five separate word lists:
Source:
simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Basic_English_combined_wordlist
Segof has three classes 4-letter words of 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 = 1296 words each.
To the PRVRpr class are assigned the English words from the wordlist of 850 "basic" words and 179 "international" (words), that is together 1029 words and are 267 unassigned.
To the PVPRpv class are assigned the English words from the wordlist of "special" words.