Omniglot News (18/08/24)

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

New language pages:

• Biatah bidayuh), a Land Dayak language spoken in Sarawak in Malaysia and West Kalimantan in Indonesia.
• Kembayan (Matéq), a Southern Land Dayak language spoken in West Kalimantan Province in Indonesia.
• Modang, a Kayanic language spoken in East Kalimantan Province in northern Indonesia.
• Maay Maay (Af-Mai-Mai), a Lowland East Cushitic language spoken mainly in southern Somlia, and also in Ethiophia and Kenya.
• Pendau (Umalasa), a Celebic language spoken in Central Sulawesi Province in Indonesia.

New numbers pages:

• Biatah (bidayuh), a Land Dayak language spoken in Sarawak in Malaysia and West Kalimantan in Indonesia.
• Modang, a Kayanic language spoken in East Kalimantan Province in Indonesia.
• Pendau (Umalasa), a Celebic language spoken in Central Sulawesi Province in Indonesia.
• Maasai (ɔl Maa), an Eastern Nilotic language spoken in central and southern Kenya and northern Tanzania.

New constructed script: Rountounge (Valkh’raash Dub Namtarak), which was invented by Kitsune Sobo as the script and language of various beings in the fictional Rhodinoverse.

On the Omniglot blog there’s a new post entitled Superfluously Redundant, .in which we dive into some redundant and superfluous words. There’s also the usual Language Quiz. See if you can guess what language this is:

http://www.omniglot.com/soundfiles/blog/quiz180824.mp3

Here’s a clue: this language is spoken in northern Siberia in the Far East Region of the Russian Federation.

The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Wichita (Kirikir’iis), a Northern Caddoan language that was spoken in western Oklahoma in the USA and which is being revived.

In this week’s episode of Celtic Pathways podcast, we look into the Celtic roots of words for Tin in some Romance languages.

On the Celtiadur blog there’s a new post entitled A Meeting of Assemblies and I improved the posts about Wolves & Sea Monsters and Roundness

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