Every gap in the list the writing has asked for was found by trying to say something and failing. That method has a blind spot, and text 19 found it: a wall and a floor are exactly what a thematic wordlist would have contained, and eighteen texts went past them because none had described a room.
So this page is the other method, kept deliberately separate. It is a hand-made
list of ordinary A1 concepts by domain — the judgement is which concepts belong
on it — and check.py looks each one up in
the English index and counts what is missing.
It proposes nothing. A concept missing here is not a word owed; several are missing on purpose, and all, some, none and every are an open question rather than an oversight.
One word appears twice, and it should. clean is in actions, where it is the verb, and in qualities, where it is what a washed room is. They are two concepts and the list counts them as two. The English index answers clean with safi, the quality, and until September 5, 2026 that one entry was marking both of them present — so the verb, which the language does not have, was counted as had. An action now counts only if the index holds it as to X. light is the same shape and comes out right by luck: the index has both light and light in weight, and the quality is really there.
Four of the missing are a part of speech, not a concept. The list counts a concept as had when the index answers it, and these four the language already has under another word class:
| Missing | What the dictionary holds | |
|---|---|---|
| work, the action | rabota, the noun work | and whether one root may hold both jobs is the open question — so it is set aside from the count entirely, rather than counted either way |
| clean, the action | safi, the quality clean | the pair this page was corrected for on September 5, 2026 |
| free | uhuru, freedom | |
| angry | gusa, anger |
That is the same shape as quiet on the other list, where sukut is the noun silence and no adjective stands beside it. The two pages found the same thing by two methods and neither named it as a kind. It is worth a name because it is a cheaper gap than the others here: nobody has to decide what the idea is, only which word class should carry it — and for work that decision is already open under a different heading. This still proposes nothing. Noticed September 6, 2026.
Thirteen of the missing are kinship, and five of them are not missing. people is the largest block of absences on this list, and text 24 showed why the block overstates the hole: possession puts the owner straight after the thing owned and applies twice without a marker, so a grandmother is the mother of my mother and needs no root. Measured on September 6, 2026, the thirteen divide three ways.
| Composed already | grandmother, grandfather, cousin | the mother of my mother, the father of my father, the child of a parent’s sibling — settled possession and nothing else |
| Refused by design | man, woman, son, daughter, uncle, aunt | the language has no gender anywhere: ta is he, she and it, dugu is a sibling of either, anak a child of either. A parent’s sibling composes; uncle as against aunt does not, and a root for either would be the first gendered word in the dictionary |
| Genuinely absent | husband, wife, baby, neighbour | four roots. baby comes close — anak keci is a small child — and neighbour is blocked twice: it needs a word, and it needs the preposition that does not exist, since nobody can live near anything |
So the domain is thinner on paper than in use, and the split matters more than the total. Three of the thirteen are already sayable, at a cost in length — a cousin is the child of the sibling of my mother, four words, and length is a real price but a different one from silence. Six are not gaps at all but the no-gender rule doing what it was chosen to do, and counting them as missing vocabulary reads a decision as an absence. Four are the real hole. This proposes nothing; the A2 briefing is where the question belongs, and it is a narrower question than thirteen.
And kinship is not the only place composition hides a concept. Swept on September 6, 2026: every two-word Amadunia phrase in the lessons and the phrasebook that is glossed by a single English word. There are exactly two, both in the phrasebook, and both are the demonstrative rather than possession — din ini for today and rat ini for tonight, this day and this night.
One of the two is on this list as missing. today stands in the time domain and the index has no entry for it, because the index holds roots and din ini is two of them. So the same thing is true of it as of a grandmother: the language says it, the count cannot see it, and the count is not wrong — it is measuring roots, which is what it says it measures. tonight is not on the list at all, which is the checklist’s own judgement about what an A1 learner needs and not an oversight.
Two rules compose, then, and only two: possession and the demonstrative. Nothing else joins — no compound word has ever been formed — so the list of concepts the language reaches without a root is short and can be written out in full, which is what these two paragraphs do.
the house
wall, floor, roof, kitchen, bathroom, stairs, garden, bed, door, window, table, chair, lamp, key, soap, plate, glass, knife, spoon, cup, clock, mirror, towel, box, bag
the body
head, hair, face, eye, ear, nose, mouth, tooth, hand, arm, leg, foot, finger, back, stomach, heart, skin, blood, bone, neck
food
bread, rice, meat, fish, egg, milk, water, tea, coffee, sugar, salt, oil, fruit, vegetable, soup, apple, cheese, butter, potato, onion, banana
clothing
shirt, shoe, trousers, coat, hat, dress, sock, button, cloth
people
person, child, mother, father, sibling, friend, teacher, doctor, farmer, merchant, driver, police, man, woman, baby, neighbour, name, family, uncle, aunt, grandmother, grandfather, cousin, son, daughter, husband, wife
time
day, night, morning, evening, week, month, year, hour, minute, moment, today, tomorrow, yesterday, now, season, late, early, Monday, Sunday, January, summer, winter
weather
rain, snow, wind, sun, cloud, sky, hot, cold, storm, ice, north, south, east, west
actions
eat, drink, sleep, walk, run, go, come, see, hear, speak, read, write, give, take, buy, sell, open, close, wash, cook, work, play, sit, stand, wait, find, lose, carry, put, begin, stop, help, learn, think, know, want, live, die, love, laugh, cry, sing, dance, jump, fall, push, pull, break, build, send, meet, ask, answer, forget, remember, try, feel, hold, throw, clean
qualities
big, small, long, short, new, old, good, bad, fast, slow, clean, dirty, full, empty, strong, weak, easy, difficult, near, far, heavy, light, beautiful, young, happy, sad, angry, tired, hungry, thirsty, sick, free, true, wrong, cheap, expensive, dark, bright, soft, hard, wet, dry, fluent, brown, grey
basics
yes, no, and, or, but, because, if, when, where, who, what, how, why, this, that, here, there, all, some, none, every, many, few, again, also, only, very, then, never, always, sometimes