Emotions in conlangs

[Cubix]

Hi, my conlang already has a large lexicon with almost 400 words and is almost complete. But I haven't created the vocabulary related to emotions. I really need a large number of emotion related words because of linguistic relativity. This theory says that your mother tongue (the one you're educated with) has a lot of influence on your way of thinking, reacting and perceiving the world. So if my conlang, Bonestalingu, has a lot of emotion related words, the ones who will speak it will be able to feel lots of emotions and feelings, and that's what I want.

The language that has the more sophisticated feeling vocabulary is (I think) Portuguese. That's why I need someone whose mother tongue is Portuguese to create the emotion lexicon. Who's voluntary ?
Note that being fluent in Portuguese isn't sufficient, it must be your mother tongue.

[Luís]

Hi, my conlang already has a large lexicon with almost 400 words and is almost complete.

400 words is a large lexicon?

I really need a large number of emotion related words because of linguistic relativity. This theory says that your mother tongue (the one you're educated with) has a lot of influence on your way of thinking, reacting and perceiving the world. So if my conlang, Bonestalingu, has a lot of emotion related words, the ones who will speak it will be able to feel lots of emotions and feelings, and that's what I want.

The strong version of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis has been thoroughly discredited. So yeah, it doesn't really work that way.

The language that has the more sophisticated feeling vocabulary is (I think) Portuguese. That's why I need someone whose mother tongue is Portuguese to create the emotion lexicon. Who's voluntary ?
Note that being fluent in Portuguese isn't sufficient, it must be your mother tongue.

I'm a native speaker of Portuguese and I don't know where you got that idea from.

[IpseDixit]

This theory says that your mother tongue (the one you're educated with) has a lot of influence on your way of thinking, reacting and perceiving the world. So if my conlang, Bonestalingu, has a lot of emotion related words, the ones who will speak it will be able to feel lots of emotions and feelings, and that's what I want.

Do you seriously believe that?

I have definitely experienced Schadenfreude despite there being no equivalent word in Italian, and even before learning it through English.