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Here’s the latest news from the world of Omniglot.
New language pages:
- Saxwe (saxwɛgbe), a Gbe language spoken in the Atlantique, Couffo and Mono departments in the southwest of Benin.
- Ekpeye (Ẹkpeye), an Igboid language spoken in Rivers and Bayelsa states in southern Nigeria.
- Gun (Gungbe), an Eastern Gbe language spoken in southeastern Benin and southwestern Nigeria.
New numbers page:
- Romani (romani ćhib), an Indo-Aryan language spoken by Roma people throughtout Europe and the USA.
New adapted script: Aksara Kémara Jawa-Bali-Indhonésia (អក្សរខេមរជវ-ពលិ-ឥណ្ឌោនេស្យ), a way to write Javanese, Balinese, Indonesian, etc with the Khmer script devised by Tom Mai.
New adapted script: Hrvatsku Glagoljicu (ⱈⱃⰲⰰⱅⱄⰽⱆ ⰳⰾⰰⰳⱁⰾⱐⰻⱌⱆ), a way to write Croatian with the Glagolitic script devised by Aahan Kotian.
On the Omniglot blog there’s a new post entitled Strong Strings in which we find out whether the the words string, strong, strength, strait, stretch and strict related, and there’s also the usual Language Quiz. See if you can guess what language this is:
Here’s a clue: this language is spoken in the Southeast Sulawesi Province in Indonesia.
The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was: Arikara (Sáhniš), a Northern Caddoan language spoken in Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota, USA.
In this week’s Celtic Pathways podcast, we discover the possible Celtic roots of words for Soot in French and other languages..
It’s also available on Instagram and TikTok.
On the Celtiadur blog, there are new posts about words for Soot and Benches and related things in Celtic languages, and I made improvements to the post about Hedgehogs
Improved page: Tulu language page.
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