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Omniglot News (05/10/25)

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

New language pages:

  • Ushoji (اُݜوجو), an Eastern Dardic language spoken mainly in the Swat District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province in northwest Pakistan.
  • Aer (آیر), a Western Indo-Aryan language spoken in Sindh in Pakistan and Gujarat in India.
  • Dameli (دمیلی), a Dardic language spoken in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province in northwest Pakistan.
  • Wandala, a Chadic language spoken in northern Cameroon and northwestern Nigeria.

    • New numbers pages:

    • Ushoji (اُݜوجو), an Eastern Dardic language spoken in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province in northwest Pakistan.
    • Dameli (دمیلی), a Dardic language spoken in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province in northwest Pakistan.
    • Secoya (Paikoka), a Tucanoan language spoken in northern Ecuador and northern Peru.

      • New adapted script: Cyrilice (Цырилице), a way to write Czech with the Cyrillic script devised by Marc Mundet.

      On the Omniglot blog there a new post entitled Shearing Scissors in which we find out why word scissors have a silent c in it, and whether it’s related to the word shears, and there’s the usual Language Quiz. See if you can guess what language this is:

      http://www.omniglot.com/soundfiles/blog/quiz051025.mp3

      Here’s a clue: this language is spoken in the Lesser Sunda Islands in Indonesia.

      The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Gottscheerish (Göttscheabarisch), a West Germanic language spoken mainly in southern Slovenia, and in New York in the USA.

      In this week’s Adventure in Etymology, Fishing for Fish, we’re fishing for the origins of the word fish and related words.

      It’s also available on Instagram and TikTok.

      On the Celtiadur blog there’s a new post entitled Sticky Glue about words for glue, to stick and related things in the 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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