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Here’s the latest news from the world of Omniglot.
New language pages:
- Vute (Vɨ́tè), a Mambiloid language spoken mainly in northern Cameroon, and also in Nigeria.
- Manjak (Manjáku), a Bak language spoke in Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, and the Gambia.
- Weh (Kɨ́wí), a Southern Bantoid language spoken in the North West Region of Cameroon.
New numbers pages:
- Manjak (Manjáku), a Bak language spoke in Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, and the Gambia.
- Maninka (Maninkakan), a Mande languages spoken mainly in Guinea and Mali
I also made improvements to the Maninka language page.
New constructed script: Flāmtón, a script created by Leven Walker as an alternative way to write English.
New adapted script: Modern Aljamiado, a contemporary revival and reconstruction of the historical Aljamiado writing tradition of medieval and early modern Iberia developed by Javier A. Hernández Maldonado.
On the Omniglot blog we find out what links the words magic and machine in a post entitled Magic Machines, 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 Tajikistan.
The mystery language in the last language quiz was Tigak, a Western Oceanic language spoken in New Ireland Province of Papua New Guinea.
On the Celtiadur blog this week there’s a new post entitled Dry Barrenness, about words for dry, barren, sterile and related things in Celtic languages.
In other news, I went to see Band-Maid, one of my favorite Japanese bands in London this week. It was a fantastic performance full of joyfully chaotic musical mayhem and brilliance. Tickets sold out very quickly as soon as they went on sale, but more became available when they moved the show to a larger venue – Electric Brixton, and I was lucky to get one.
BAND-MAID performing their song Dilly-Dally at Electric Brixton in London – video by MetalMonkey
They sing mainly in Japanese, with bits of English thrown in for fun. I’ve heard most of their songs many times, and really enjoy listening to their music, even though I don’t understand many of the lyrics. Sometimes words or phrases will suddenly make sense after hearing them multiple times. This happens with songs in other languages as well, even in English sometimes, when the words are not clearly articulated.
The morning after the concert, I met a friend who lives in Brixton and we went to a nice little café in Brixton market. I know him through polyglot events I’ve been to, and we spoke mainly in Welsh, one of the languages he speaks well. He teaches Russian and Germain online, and has language learning tips on his website How to get fluent with Dr Popkins.
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