[…] ‘basic vocabulary’ items (i.e., names of body parts, lower numerals, personal pronouns, basic actions and objects, immediate members of the family, and so forth).
- Traugott (1977), Pag. 72

[…] basic vocabulary can be altered and realtered within a very short period of time.
- Traugott (1977), Pag. 73

[…] basic vocabulary is often in the main from the superstrate language.
- Traugott (1977), Pag. 74