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Here’s the latest news from the world of Omniglot.
New language pages:
- Mundani (Mundàni), a Southern Bantoid language spoken in the Southwest Region of Cameroon.
- Amuzgo (Ñòmndaá), an Eastern Oto-Manguean language spoken in Guerrero and Oaxaca in southern Mexico.
- Cuicatec (Dibaku / Dbaku), a Mixtecan language spoken in the northwest of Oaxaca in southern Mexico.
New numbers pages:
- Saho (Saahot Af), an East Lowland Cushitic language spoken in Eritrea and Ethiopia.
- Ghomara (žamaεa / ⵖⵓⵎⴰⵔⴰ), a Northern Berber language spoken in northern Morocco.
In this week’s Adventure in Etymology, Frequently Crowded, we uncover the crowded roots of the word frequent.
It’s also available on Instagram and TikTok.
On the Omniglot blog this week there’s a new post entitled Sadly Satisfying Assets, in which we find out what connects the words asset, satisfy and sad, and there’s the usual language quiz. See if you guess what language this is:
Here’s a clue: this language is spoken in northern Vietnam and southern China.
The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Khinalug (каьтш мицІ) , a Northeast Caucasian language spoken in northern Azerbaijan.
On the Celtiadur blog this week there’s a new post entitled Shearing Fleeces about words for fleece, shearing and related things in Celtic languages..
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