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Omniglot News (04/01/26)

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

New language pages:

  • Minica Huitoto (Mɨnɨka), a Bora-Witoto language spoken mainly in southern Colombia, and also in northern Peru (the 2,300th language page!)
  • Mfumte, an Eastern Grassfields language spoken mainly in the Northwest Region of Cameroon.
  • Abon (Abɔn), a Southern Bantoid language spoken in Taraba State in Nigeria.
  • Vaiphei, a Northern Zo-Mizo language spoken mainly in Manipur in the northeast of India.
  • Mara (Mara Reih), a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in the northwest of Guizhou Province in southern China
  • Caijia (Menni), a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in the northwest of Guizhou Province in southern China.

    • New numbers pages:

    • Minica Huitoto (Mɨnɨka), a Bora-Witoto language spoken mainly in southern Colombia
    • Avestan (𐬛𐬍𐬥 𐬛𐬀𐬠𐬌𐬫𐬭𐬵), an extinct Eastern Iranian language and the sacred language of Zoroastrianism.
    • Sidama (Sidaamu Afoo), a Cushitic language spoken in the Sidama Region in southern Ethiopia.

      • On the Omniglot blog this week there’s a new post entitled Quick Brown Foxes about pangrams, sentences that contain all the letters of a particular language, and there’s a new language quiz. See if you guess what language this is:

      http://www.omniglot.com/soundfiles/blog/quiz040126.mp3

      Here’s a clue: this language is spoken in Vietnam and Cambodia.

      Usually I find recordings for language quizzes on YouTube, but since coming to China at the end of November last year, I haven’t been able to access YouTube due to the Great Firewall of China, and haven’t found any good alternative sources of recordings. So, I haven’t been posting any quizzes. However, during the past week or so, YouTube has been accessible some of the time, and I managed to find a suitable recording for this week’s quiz.

      There’s a new Adventure in Etymology entitled Code Trees, in which we find out what the word code has to do with books and trees.

      There’s a new post on the Celtiadur blog this week entitled Pressing Squeezes about words for press, squeeze 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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