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Here’s the latest news from the world of Omniglot.
There are new language pages about:
- Tanga (Batanga), a Bantu language spoken in western Equatorial Guinea and western Cameroon.
- Kili (кили), a Tungusic language spoken in the southeast of the Russian Federation, and in northeastern China
New fictional scripts: Final Fantasy scripts – the scripts that appear in the Final Fantasy X games (Al Bhed, Spiran and Yevon)
New adapted script: Ellinovalkanikó Kyrillikó Alfávito (Greek Balkan Cyrillic Alphabet), a way to write Greek with the Cyrillic alphabet devised by Xavier Merica.
О́лоі і а́нђръпоі гэнніои́нтаі элэи́ђэроі хаі і́соі стьн аціопрэ́пэіа хаі та діхаіъ́мата. Эі́наі проіхісмэ́ноі мэ логіхь́ хаі синэі́дьсь, хаі офэі́лоин на симпэріфэ́ронтаі мэтаци́ тоис мэ пнэи́ма адэлфоси́ньс.
New adapted script: Diacritical English, a compact way to write English mainly with the Cyillic alphabet with added diacritics invented by Ava Robbins-Kräg.
New Tower of Babel translation: Aringa, a Central Sudanic language spoken in the northwest of Uganda.
There’s a new Omniglot blog post entitled Titles about titles like Ms, Mx, and there’s the usual Language Quiz. See if you can guess what language this is:
Here’s a clue: this is a Sinitic language.
The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Ingrian (Ižoran keeli), a Finnic language spoken in the Leningrad Oblast in the northwest of the Russia Federation.
In this week’s Adventure in Etymology, entitled Finger, we find out what the words finger, fist and Pompeii have in common.
On the Celtiadur blog there’s a new post called Weak and Feeble about words for weak, feeble and related things.
Improved pages: Fang, Toda, Tindi, Tiriyó language pages.
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https://www.facebook.com/Omniglot-100430558332117
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