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Here’s the latest news from the world of Omniglot.
New language pages:
- Minica Huitoto (Mɨnɨka), a Bora-Witoto language spoken mainly in southern Colombia, and also in northern Peru (the 2,300th language page!)
- Mfumte, an Eastern Grassfields language spoken mainly in the Northwest Region of Cameroon.
- Abon (Abɔn), a Southern Bantoid language spoken in Taraba State in Nigeria.
- Vaiphei, a Northern Zo-Mizo language spoken mainly in Manipur in the northeast of India.
- Mara (Mara Reih), a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in the northwest of Guizhou Province in southern China
- Caijia (Menni), a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in the northwest of Guizhou Province in southern China.
New numbers pages:
- Minica Huitoto (Mɨnɨka), a Bora-Witoto language spoken mainly in southern Colombia
- Avestan (𐬛𐬍𐬥 𐬛𐬀𐬠𐬌𐬫𐬭𐬵), an extinct Eastern Iranian language and the sacred language of Zoroastrianism.
- Sidama (Sidaamu Afoo), a Cushitic language spoken in the Sidama Region in southern Ethiopia.
On the Omniglot blog this week there’s a new post entitled Quick Brown Foxes about pangrams, sentences that contain all the letters of a particular language, and there’s a new language quiz. See if you guess what language this is:
Here’s a clue: this language is spoken in Vietnam and Cambodia.
Usually I find recordings for language quizzes on YouTube, but since coming to China at the end of November last year, I haven’t been able to access YouTube due to the Great Firewall of China, and haven’t found any good alternative sources of recordings. So, I haven’t been posting any quizzes. However, during the past week or so, YouTube has been accessible some of the time, and I managed to find a suitable recording for this week’s quiz.
There’s a new Adventure in Etymology entitled Code Trees, in which we find out what the word code has to do with books and trees.
There’s a new post on the Celtiadur blog this week entitled Pressing Squeezes about words for press, squeeze and related things in Celtic languages.
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