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Omniglot News (04/08/24)

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

New language pages:

  • Hill Miri (muri-mugli / मुरि-मुग्लि), Western Tani language spoken in Arunachal Pradesh in northeastern India.
  • Chiru (ꯆꯤꯔꯨ), a Kuki-Chin-Naga language spoken in Manipur, Assam and Nagaland in the northeast India.
  • Bimin, a Mountain Ok language spoken mainly in Sandaun Province in the west Papua New Guinea.

    • New numbers pages:

    • Bimin, a Mountain Ok language spoken mainly in Sandaun Province in the west Papua New Guinea.
    • Hill Miri (muri-mugli / मुरि-मुग्लि), Western Tani language spoken in Arunachal Pradesh in northeastern India.
    • Galo (gallo), a Western Tani language spoken in Arunachal Pradesh in the northeast of India.

      • New phrases pages:

      • Galo (gallo), a Western Tani language spoken in Arunachal Pradesh in the northeast of India.
      • Hill Miri (muri-mugli / मुरि-मुग्लि), Western Tani language spoken in Arunachal Pradesh in northeastern India.

        • New constructed script: Nomish, which was invented by Kitsune Sobo as the native script of the Nomes in the fictional Rhodinoverse.

        On the Omniglot blog there’s a new post entitled Forest Cities, in which we ask what a forest is, and whether cities like London and Berlin could be classified as forests. There’s also the usual Language Quiz. See if you can guess what language this is:

        http://www.omniglot.com/soundfiles/blog/quiz040824.mp3

        Here’s a clue: this language is spoken in northern Paraguay.

        The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Lokoya, an Eastern Nilotic language spoken in South Sudan.

        In this week’s episode of Celtic Pathways podcast, entitled Boring Tools we’re drilling down to find the possibly Celtic roots of words for drill, auger and related tools in some Romance languages.

        On the Celtiadur blog there are new posts entitled Augers & Drills and Shells.

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