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Omniglot News (02/03/25)

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

New language pages:

  • Mbuun (kiMbuun), a western Bantu language spoken in Kwilu Province in the west of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • Aka, a Bantu language spoken the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • Komo (Kikomo), a Bantu language spoken in Tshopo Province in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

    • New constructed script: Θũʘṵʢṳ / Old Speech, a script and language developed by Kitsune Sobo and Charlie Chey for ‘The Song of Eternavis’, a multimedia project detailing the fictional world of Eternavis.

    New constructed script: Saturnian, an alternative alphabet for English and Italian designed by Murray Callahan, which is partly based on Tolkien’s Tengwar script.

    New adapted script: Neo-Tifinagh for Arabic (ⴻⴰⵍⴽⵉⵜⴰⴰⴱⴰⵜ ⴻⴰⵏⵄⴰⵎⴰⴰⵣⵉⵖⵉⵢⵢⴰ), a way to write Arabic with the Neo-Tifinagh script devised by Aahan Kotian.

    New numbers pages:

    • Jirel (जिरेल), a Southern Tibetic language spoken mainly in Bagmati Province in eastern Nepal.
    • Itbayat (Itbayatan), a Batanic language spoken mainly on Itbayat Island in the Batanes Islands in the Philippines.
    • Palauan (a tekoi er a Belau), a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in Palau, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands.

      • Improved numbers page: Sundanese

      On the Omniglot blog there’s a new post entitled Swallowing Camels about some interesting Danish idioms, and there’s also the usual Language Quiz. See if you can guess what language this is:

      http://www.omniglot.com/soundfiles/blog/quiz020325.mp3

      Here’s a clue: this language is spoken mainly in northern India, and also in Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan.

      The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was: Ikwerre, an Igboid language spoken mainly in River State in southern Nigeria.

      In this week’s Celtic Pathways podcast, Quays, we uncover the Celtic roots of words for quay, jetty, pier, etc. in English, French and other languages.

      It’s also available on Instagram and TikTok.

      On the Celtiadur blog, there’s a new post about words for Bishop and related things in Celtic languages.

      For more Omniglot News, see:

      https://www.omniglot.com/news/
      https://www.facebook.com/groups/omniglot/
      https://www.facebook.com/Omniglot-100430558332117

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