Words
I wonder to what extent articles about ‘X number of words that don’t have an equivalent in English’ just demonstrate the limited size of the vocabulary of those writing them?
It’s a red herring anyway as it’s the descriptive power of the language that’s important not the ultimate number of words and I doubt there is a hierarchy.
I imagine the people who write them also rate Shakespeare’s plays by the number of lines (see Monty Python 1).
Which I won’t link to as it’s an example of how what is acceptable language evolves.↩