Omniglot News (22/02/26)

Omniglot News

Here’s the latest news from the world of Omniglot.

New language pages:

  • Ipulo, a Central Tivoid language spoken in the Southwest and Northwest regions of Cameroon.
  • Isu, a Central Tivoid language spoken in the Menchum Department of the Northwest Region of Cameroon.
  • Baraba Tatar (Парабачы), a variety of Siberia Tatar, a Turkic a language spoken in Siberia in Russia.
  • Ralte (Râlte Pau), a Northeastern Kuki-Chin language spoken in Mizoram, Manipur and Tripura in the northeast of India.

New adapted script: Cantonese Cyrillic (Ғоңдұңва Сәйлейї Зимоў), a way to write Cantonese with the Cyrillic alphabet devised by Dijacz.

Янян сәңїпыңдәң, хәй жүнїм тұңмай күнлей сөң ятлёт пыңдәң. Кёйдей яў лейсың тұңмай лөңсәм, їце йыңдоң ї хыңдәй ғанхәй’ге зыңсән сөңдёйдой.

New numbers pages:

  • Sisaali (Sɩsaalɩ), a Southern Gur language spoken in southern Burkina Faso.
  • Edo (Ẹ̀dó), a Volta-Congo language spoken mainly in Edo State in southern Nigeria.
  • Ralte (Râlte Pau), a Northeastern Kuki-Chin language spoken in Mizoram, Manipur and Tripura in India.

New Tower of Babel translation in: Edo (Ẹ̀dó)

This week on the Omniglot blog there’s a new post entitled Pages, Pagans & Peasants, in which we find out whether the words page, pagan, peasant and pheasant are related, and there’s the usual language quiz.

See if you guess what language this is:

Here’s a clue: this language is spoken in northeastern India.

The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Kuuk Thaayorre, a Pama-Nyungan language spoken in Queensland, Australia.

In this week’s Adventure in Etymology, entitled Plain Planes, we find out if the words plain, plane and plan are related.

It’s also available on Instagram and TikTok.

There’s also a new post on the Celtiadur blog this week entitled Knowing Recognition about words for to know, to recognize and related things in Celtic languages.

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Omniglot News (16/02/25)

Omniglot News

Here’s the latest news from the world of Omniglot.

New writing system: Kodava Lipi, or Muthanna Script, was created in 1970 by Dr. I M Muthanna to write Kodava, a Dravidian language spoken in Karnataka in the southwest of India. It was chosen as the official script for Kodava in 2022.

Sample text in Kodava Lipi

New language pages:

  • Mbama (Lembáámá), a Bantu language spoken in the Republic of Congo and in Gabon.
  • Mbere (Limbere), a Bantu language spoken in the Republic of Congo and in Gabon.
  • Tooro (Orutooro), a Northeast Bantu language spoken in the Tooro Kingdom in southwestern Uganda.
  • Nyoro (Orunyoro), a Northeast Bantu language spoken in the Bunyoro Kingdom in western Uganda.

New numbers pages:

  • Adzera, a Western Oceanic language spoken in Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea.
  • Aneityum (Anejom̃), a Southern Oceanic language spoken on Aneityum Island in Tafea Province in the south of Vanuatu.
  • Are (Mukawa), a Western Oceanic language spoken in Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea.

New Tower of Babel translation: Nyoro (Orunyoro), a Northeast Bantu language spoken in the Bunyoro Kingdom in western Uganda.

On the Omniglot blog there’s a new post entitled Villainous Sharks about the Danish word skurk (villain, baddie) and related words in other languages, and there’s the usual Language Quiz. See if you can guess what language this is:

Here’s a clue: this language is spoken in the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia.

The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was: Yapese (Thin nu Waqab), an Oceanic language spoken on the island of Yap, in the Federated States of Micronesia.

On the Celtic Pathways podcast, we investigate the Celtic roots of words for Gulls in English and French.

It’s also available on Instagram and TikTok.

On the Celtiadur blog, there’s a new post about words Abbots and related things in Celtic languages, and I made improvements to the post about words for To Burn.

Improved pages: Kodava, Are and Adzera language pages.

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