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Here’s the latest news from the world of Omniglot.
New language pages:
- Nawdm (nawdm), a Gur language spoken in northern Togo and southern and eastern Ghana.
- Yom (Pila), a Gur language spoken in the Atacora, Borgou and Donga departments in the northwest of Benin.
- Akuapem, a variety of Akan spoken mainly in southern Ghana, and in the southeast of the Ivory Coast.
- Likpe (Sεkpεlé), a Kwa language spoken in the Hoehoe District of the Volta Region in southeastern Ghana.
New numbers pages:
- Nawdm (nawdm), a Gur language spoken in Togo and Ghana.
- Loma (Löömàgòòi), a Southwestern Mande language spoken in northern Liberia.
- Mandari (Kútúk nà mùndárì), an Eastern Nilotic language spoken in Central Equatoria state in South Sudan.
New phrases pages:
- Nawdm (nawdm), a Gur language spoken in Togo and Ghana.
On the Omniglot blog there’s a new post entitled Rustling Frou-frous – a frou-frou little post I rustled up about ways to say rustle in French, and there’s also the usual Language Quiz. See if you can guess what language this is:
Here’s a clue: this language is spoken in Guyana and Brazil.
The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was: Batak Mandailing (Saro Mandailing), a Southern Batak language spoken mainly in North Sumatra Province in Indonesia.
This week’s Adventure in Etymology is an assembly of words about the word thing, or something like that.
It’s also available on Instagram and TikTok.
On the Celtiadur blog there’s a new post entitled Buckets & Pails about words for bucket, pail and related things in Celtic languages.
In other news, I finally finished the Spanish course on Duolingo this week, or all the lessons I hadn’t got to yet disappeared. This has happened before for other languages, including Japanese, Irish and Scottish Gaelic. Sometimes lessons mysteriously disappear, and other times new ones appear. I’d previously finished all the Spanish lessons, for example, then a whole load more showed up.
I’m currently concentrating on Italian and Mandarin Chinese, and keeping my Japanese ticking over. I’m thinking about either trying a completely new language to me, or brushing up one of the ones I’ve already studied. My streak is currently at 2,857 days – that’s over 8 years (and 14 languages), and I don’t want to lose it. I’ve got into the habit of studying every day and would miss it, even if some days I’m mainly doing it to maintain my streak and my position in the diamond league.
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