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==Vocabulary== | ==Vocabulary== | ||
It is generally stated that Luthic has around 370,000 words, or 410,000 if [[w:Archaism|obsolete words]] are counted, however 98% of the Luthic used today consists of only 5,800 words. | |||
A 2016 statistic by Lucia Giamane is based on 3,172 words chosen on the criteria of frequency, semantic richness and productivity, which also contain words formed on the territory of the Luthic language. This statistic gives the percentages below: | |||
* 1,200 words inherited from Gothic; | |||
* 953 words inherited from Latin; | |||
* 510 words, academic loanwords from Latin; | |||
* 133 words borrowed from Italian; | |||
* 125 words borrowed from West Germanic, such as Frankish, Langobardic and Standard High German; | |||
* 101 words formed in Luthic; | |||
* 98 words borrowed from French; | |||
* 52 words borrowed from Greek. | |||
Luthic has approximately 2,000 uncompounded words inherited from Proto-Indo-European. These were inherited via: | |||
* 45% Germanic; | |||
* 43% Italic, Romance; | |||
* 8% Celtic; | |||
* 2% Hellenic; | |||
* 2% Uncertain. | |||
==Bibliography== | ==Bibliography== | ||