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== Vocabulary ==

[[File:Vethariscript.jpg|205px|thumb|The Vethari script written on a notebook.]] From a 2022 study from the Royal Vethari Language Academy, it is shown that Vethari has around 412,000 words, however, if also counting the obsolete and archaic terms, Vethari has approximately 563,000 lemmas(This without even counting toponyms, hydronyms, …, Proper Nouns, affixes and Compound ~~Nouns~~). Although having a great lexicon, only about 9,280 words are used on daily conversations, based on colloquial speech from a young person. That number just gets bigger and bigger when on special occasions, jobs and technical and scientific terms.

[[File:Vethariscript.jpg|205px|thumb|The Vethari script written on a notebook.]] From a 2022 study from the Royal Vethari Language Academy, it is shown that Vethari has around 412,000 words, however, if also counting the obsolete and archaic terms, Vethari has approximately 563,000 lemmas(This without even counting toponyms, hydronyms, …, Proper Nouns, affixes and Compound words). Although having a great lexicon, only about 9,280 words are used on daily conversations, based on colloquial speech from a young person. That number just gets bigger and bigger when on special occasions, jobs and technical and scientific terms.

From the same study, with help from the Official Vethari etymological Dictionary, written, printed and sold by the Royal Vethari Language Academy, 5,000 words were chosen by criteria of frequency and will be displayed in order by their etymology:

(No compound words, proper nouns or affixes)

* 3,901 native words inherited from Proto-Vethari and related languages

* 1,016 words inherited from Proto-Dravidian and related languages

* 414 words inherited from Sino-Tibetan languages

* 209 words inherited from Indo-European languages

* 194 words inherited from Proto-Austronesian and related languages

* 166 words inherited from Proto-Great-Andamanese and related languages

Because of being an advanced civilization, lots of techniques and scientific terms are native words. For example, from the 118 periodic elements, 37 have native words for it, since they were discovered before other words being borrowed for them. Basically, the other remaining elements are adapted borrowings from French and English, to fit into the phonotactics. Other recent technologies are usually borrowed from Telugu, Bengali, Burmese or Thai. The calendary is the Gregorian calendary and each month has its name based on things that happen on that time, for example the time to harvest, the month that is cold and more.

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 == Vocabulary ==
-[[File:Vethariscript.jpg|205px|thumb|The Vethari script written on a notebook.]] From a 2022 study from the Royal Vethari Language Academy, it is shown that Vethari has around 412,000 words, however, if also counting the obsolete and archaic terms, Vethari has approximately 563,000 lemmas(This without even counting toponyms, hydronyms, …, Proper Nouns, affixes and Compound Nouns). Although having a great lexicon, only about 9,280 words are used on daily conversations, based on colloquial speech from a young person. That number just gets bigger and bigger when on special occasions, jobs and technical and scientific terms.
+[[File:Vethariscript.jpg|205px|thumb|The Vethari script written on a notebook.]] From a 2022 study from the Royal Vethari Language Academy, it is shown that Vethari has around 412,000 words, however, if also counting the obsolete and archaic terms, Vethari has approximately 563,000 lemmas(This without even counting toponyms, hydronyms, …, Proper Nouns, affixes and Compound words). Although having a great lexicon, only about 9,280 words are used on daily conversations, based on colloquial speech from a young person. That number just gets bigger and bigger when on special occasions, jobs and technical and scientific terms.
+From the same study, with help from the Official Vethari etymological Dictionary, written, printed and sold by the Royal Vethari Language Academy, 5,000 words were chosen by criteria of frequency and will be displayed in order by their etymology:
+(No compound words, proper nouns or affixes)
+* 3,901  native words inherited from Proto-Vethari and related languages
+* 1,016 words inherited from Proto-Dravidian and related languages
+* 414 words inherited from Sino-Tibetan languages
+* 209 words inherited from Indo-European languages
+* 194 words inherited from Proto-Austronesian and related languages
+* 166 words inherited from Proto-Great-Andamanese and related languages
 Because of being an advanced civilization, lots of techniques and scientific terms are native words. For example, from the 118 periodic elements, 37 have native words for it, since they were discovered before other words being borrowed for them. Basically, the other remaining elements are adapted borrowings from French and English, to fit into the phonotactics. Other recent technologies are usually borrowed from Telugu, Bengali, Burmese or Thai. The calendary is the Gregorian calendary and each month has its name based on things that happen on that time, for example the time to harvest, the month that is cold and more.