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Here’s the latest news from the world of Omniglot.
New adapated script: Penobscot Syllabics (ᑆᕋᕚᓂᐤᑄᐤᓯᐤᔨᕕ), which a way, devised by Connor Flood, to use Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics to write Penobscot, an Eastern Abenaki language that was spoken in Maine in the USA until the 1990s and which is being revived.
There are new language pages about:
- Muinane (Muìnánɨ), a Boran language spoken in southern Colombia.
- Texistepec (Wää ‘oot), a Gulf Zoque language spoken in Veracruz State in southeastern Mexico.
- Chimalapa Zoque (aŋpʉn), a Zoque language spoken in the State of Oaxaca in southern Mexico.
- Sierra Popoluca (Nuntajɨyi), a Zoque language spoken the State of Veracruz in southeastern Mexico.
New numbers pages:
- Muinane (Muìnánɨ), a Boran language spoken in southern Colombia.
- Texistepec (Wää ‘oot), a Gulf Zoque language spoken in Veracruz State in southeastern Mexico.
- Chimalapa Zoque (aŋpʉn), a Zoque language spoken in the State of Oaxaca in southern Mexico.
There’s a new Omniglot blog post entitled Lost in the Geese, in which we look into the French word oie (goose) and related words in other languages, and there’s the usual Language Quiz. See if you can guess what language this is:
Here’s a clue: this language is spoken in southern France.
The mystery languages in last week’s language quiz were Bengali, Bassa, Cornish, Hausa and Luxembourgish.
The recordings come from https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/newyear.htm
In this week’s Celtic Pathways podcast we discover the Celtic roots of the word barnacle and related words in other languages.
On the Celtiadur blog there are new posts entitled Barnacles & Limpets and Dinner, and I made improvements to the post about words for Seas and related things.
Improved page: Wayuu language page.
In other news, I started studying Irish on Duolingo this week. I already know quite a bit as I started learning it about 20 years ago, and spent a week or two studying, speaking and singing Irish in Ireland every summer from 2005 to 2019. I’m planning to go back to Ireland this summer for the first time in 5 years, and I thought I should brush up my Irish.
I don’t know if I’ll start studying any new languages in 2024, or just continue to improve the ones I already know.
What are your language learning plans for 2024?
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