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Here’s the latest news from the world of Omniglot.
New language pages:
- Neo, an international auxiliary language created by Arturo Alfandari in the 1930s.
- Eloyi (Ɛ̀llɔ́ì / Ẹ̀llọ́ì), a Plataeau language spoken in central and southeast Nigeria.
- Gapapaiwa, a Western Oceanic language spoken in Milne Bay Province in Papua New Guinea.
New numbers page:
- Neo, an international auxiliary language created by Arturo Alfandari in the 1930s.
- Gurung (तमु क्यी), a Tamangic language spoken in south and central Nepal and northeast India.
New adapated script: Maltilliku (Малтиллику), a way to write Maltese with the Cyrillic alphabet devised by Michael Lai.
New constructed script: Lafnyan, which was created by Igor W. T. Beccaro Damini to use in an epic fantasy book series he is writing.
In this week’s Adventure in Etymology, Woven Waves, we unravel the woven origins of the word wave.
It’s also available on Instagram and TikTok.
On the Omniglot blog we find out whether the words ford, fjord and port are related in a post entitled Fording Fjord Ports, and there’s the usual language quiz. See if you guess what language this is:
Here’s a clue: this language is spoken in Pakistan.
The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Serrano (Maarrênga’twich), an Uto-Aztecan language spoken in southern California in the USA.
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