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

New language pages:

New constructed script: Vsrc, an alternative way to write English inspired by the Arabic script created by Juan Euskalduna.

New numbers page Quiripi, an Eastern Algonquian language that was spoken in Connecticut and Long Island in the USA.

This week on the Omniglot blog there’s a new post entitled Yexing, about the word yex, which means a hiccough / hiccup, burp or belch, and there’s the usual language quiz. See if you guess what language this is:

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

The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Patamona, a dialect of Kapóng, a Cariban language spoken in Guyana.

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

Incidentally, if you’re wondering why there’s less new material on Omniglot this week, it’s because some friends came to visit me, and I didn’t have as much time to work on Omniglot. With one friend from the Netherlands I spoke a mixture of English, Dutch, Welsh, French and Scottish Gaelic, and with another friend I spoke Welsh and English. We also sang songs in Welsh, English, German, Dutch and Scottish Gaelic. So it was a linguistically rich week.

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