From: "hotmyol" <no_reply@yahoogroups.com>

> I'm 13 years old,

After my next paragraph, I'm going to ignore that information and pretend
you're grown-up. We're on first name turns in this group, and I don't know
who's Dr, who's Professor and who's plain Mister. And I've even less idea
about the ladies.

> I am a conlanger

It's not called a 'secret vice' for nothing. Mind you, I was into
con-langing when I was your age. My languages are still around, but they
haven't evolved much if at all for over twenty years.

> and a language lover, and I here that there are over
> 600 words reconstructed in Nostratic. (Could some one give me a word
> list or something?)

It looks as though you'll have to get Allan Bomhard's book. It's not the
last word by any means. You'll find serious discussion of his work at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nostratic . You'll find an eccentric's
discussion if you do a web search on Proto-language, Ryan and Nostratic.
The Moscow School's work is harder to get hold of.

At present, there doesn't seem to be much success in reconstructing
Afro-Asiatic, though the Moscow School doesn't include Afro-Asiatic in
Nostratic.

If you just want an Indo-European wordlist, you can use the one at
http://flaez.ch/pokorny.html . The spelling there's a bit odd - <v> is the
semivowel [w] and <w> indicates labialisation of the preceding velar. It
also ignores the laryngeal theory, which now seems to be generally accepted.
Starotsin has pulled together various wordlists at his site. I go to that
via the annoncement group at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MTLR , correct
the home page link so it reads ~witzel and not ~witze, and proceed from
there.

If you want discussion of the Indo-European languages, see Yahoo group
Cybalist. Don't click on the website announced at its banner page; it's
been hijacked by a porn site. The website it should take you to is now at
http://indoeuro.bizland.com . A list of other sites with information on
Indo-European is at http://indoeuro.bizland.com/amembers.html .

The link for the 'Alexeev manuscript' is wrong; perhaps Gerry will respond
to this with its current location. The archaeology should be sound, but I'm
afraid some attempts to add to the lecture material have added linguistic
disinformation.

There's discussion of the Asian Nostratic languages at Yahoo group
Aturan-languages (I've mentally filed it as revived 'Turanian') - I can't
comment on the qualiy of the discussions. If you want focused discussion of
Nostratic languages, I recommend http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Nostratic-L .
There's nothing much there yet (it started yesterday and the group settings
are still evolving), but the recent contretemps at Nostratica has probably
put paid to serious discussion of Nostratic here. If you are seriously
interested in NostraticI recommend that you join. That doesn't mean the
archives aren't worth looking at. Miguel's recent 'tour' is probably the
best bit, but I for one archived the lot (up to message 835) when I wasn't
sure how the Nostratica group-owner was going to react. I'm not sure where
methodological discussions will go to.

> I recently invented a
> new world that will require about 40 new conlangs.

Have you looked at www.zompist.com ? Besides the general linguistic
information there, there's a section devoted to con-langing. How were you
planning to implement your cognate languages? There's a tool there for
applying regular sound changes, but it's a bit of a pain to use for
gemination or even for degemination. I'd hate to rely on to imitate the
sort of heavy vowel loss encountered in the transition form Proto-Slavonic
to Polish. I've been using it to check out complex sequences of sound
changes, but I had to tweak the interface to handle single words rather than
whole vocabularies.

Best wishes,

Richard Wordingham