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Originally Posted by Billi
To defend my language a little bit (okay, that's off-topic): we have a lot of compound words and can "invent" them quite freely so we have a lot more words than those 135.000 you gave.
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Oh yes, I know about German compound words. Some other languages do the same.
As always in these comparisons, it's how to decide on what's called a word. I think that dictionary entries is as good a measure as any.
All modern languages have sufficient vocabulary for all practical purposes, so comparing vocabulary sizes is really just for fun.