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On another page I said:

(Side note: It would be interesting to see how compressed a vocabulary can be made. I thought of doing a side project: a conlang that uses one word to mean, say, "six", "eye", "green", "the letter F", "grass", "macaroni", "chair", "scold", "child", "chase", "melt", "vitamin E", "movie", and "flower", but it's preceded by a particle that indicates which "meaning class" you're using and thus the meaning of the following word. So one particle would mark numbers; another, body parts; another colors; and so on.)

I'm calling this new conlang "Packish," for now, as it is meant to have a well-packed vocabulary.

Notes

Phonology should be simple if possible, like Toki Pona.
- Sounds:
  - vowels (5) a e i o u
  - consonants (9) p t k l m n s w y
  - no diphthongs
  - no clusters
- Syllables:
  - CV (9 x 5 = 45)
  - CVC (45 or 90 or 135)
    - If only 'n' is allowed as a coda, this means 9 x 5 x 1 or 45 possible CVC syllables (bringing the syllable total to 90).
    - If 'l' and 's' are also allowed, this means 9 x 5 x 3 or 135 possible CVC syllables (bringing the syllable total to 180).
Word types
- Category words
  - A category word is a particle that indicates a particular category of meaning: numbers, body parts, people's names, place names, colors, letters, plants, animals, food, furniture, speech action, physical action, type of change, things one looks at or listens to, etc.
- Concept words
  - A concept word has no meaning except when it follows a category word.
- Pairs
  - A pair is a concept word and its preceding category word.
  - It is possible that a category word may become a "subcategory word" and thus can be followed by its own concept word. You would then have a triple.
- Particles
  - Particles (along with word order) combine pairs into clauses and indicate the relationship of a clause to others in the same chapter or conversation.
Vocabulary
- I may shoot for 30 particles, 30 categories, and 30 concept words. This means up to 900 pairs -- 900 concepts expressed with different combinations of just sixty words.
- Also note that these categories are not closed categories; you are not limited to the 30 (or however many) concept words with any given category. Packish should be able to borrow words from English and other languages and assign them to a category. So the core of Packish is well-packed, yet Packish should be able to grow as a language should.
- Proposed categories
  - Numbers
  - Body parts
  - Relationships
  - Colors
  - Letters, characters, symbols, glyphs, marks
  - Plants
  - Animals
  - Food
  - Furniture
  - Speech action
  - Physical action (affecting something else)
  - Change action
  - Something intended to be watched or listened to, not used as a tool, nor eaten, etc.
- Proposed particles
  - Proper-name marker
  - Subordinate clause marker (introduces a clause intended only to describe or disambiguate, not to relay new information)
  - Reminder marker (introduces a clause meant to bring up previously disclosed information)
- Disambiguation
  - You would use stress (accent) and speed changes (long and short vowels) in speech to indicate the difference between "do re mi", "dore mi", and "do remi".