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Here’s the latest news from the world of Omniglot.
There are new language pages about:
- Big Numbas (V’ënen Taut), an Oceanic language spoken in the Big Numbas region in the northwest of Malekula Island in Malampa Province of Vanuatu.
- Neverver, a Southern Oceanic language spoken on Malekula Island in Malampa Province of Vanuatu.
- Tamambo (Tamabo), a Remote Oceanic language spoken mainly on Malo Island in Sanma province of Vanuatu.
New constructed script: Katemayar, which was created by Bryson Schnaitmann to write his constructed language, Kynaatt.
There are new numbers pages in:
- Ambel (galí Ambél), a Malayo-Polynesian spoken mainly on Waigeo island in West Papua province in eastern Indonesia.
- Big Numbas (V’ënen Taut), an Oceanic language spoken in the Big Numbas region in the northwest of Malekula Island in Malampa Province of Vanuatu.
- Paku, an East Barito language spoken in Central Kalimantan province of Indonesia.
- Warao, a language isolate spoken in Delta Amacuro, Monagas and Sucre states of Venezuela.
There’s an Omniglot blog post called Tidy! about Dutch words for tidying and cleaning, and the usual Language Quiz. See if you can guess what language this is:
Here’s a clue: this language is spoken in Italy.
The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Tamahaq, a Northern Berber language spoken in southern Algeria, western Libya and northern Niger.
There are new Celtiadur posts about words for Halloween, Hosts of Folks and related things in Celtic languages.
On the Celtic Pathways podcast we have a A Slew of Slogans, which is about words for slogan, slew and related things.
In the Adventure in Etymology find possible links between the word rubble and words such as rubbish, hale, hail, whole and holy.
Here’s a bit of music – some Minor Noodles that I recorded yesterday featuring a friend on the guitar and me on the mandolin:
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