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

New constructed script: Urup Bidayuh’, which was created by Reza Sumanda as a way to write Biatah (Bidayuh), a Land Dayak language spoken in West Kalimantan in Indonesia, and Sarawak in Malaysia.

New language pages:

New numbers pages:

On the Omniglot blog we discover whether the words cargo and car are related in post called A Cargo of Cars, and there’s the usual Language Quiz. See if you can guess what language this is:

Here’s a clue: this language was spoken in Ontario in Canada and Oklahoma in the USA, and is currently being revived.

The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Rutul (мыхӏабишды‎), a Lezgic language spoken in the Republic of Dagestan in the southwest of Russia.

In this week’s Adventure in Etymology we find out what links helicopters, Roger Federer and Feathers.

It’s also available on Instagram and TikTok.

On the Celtiadur blog there’s a new post entitled Ashy Embers about words for ash, embers, cinders etc, and I made improvements to the post about Wings and related things.

Improved page: Kaitag language page.

In other news, I finished all the Italian lessons on Duolingo this week, and I’m continuing to study Swahili. I may learn some more of one of the languages I’ve already studied in the past, or try a new language. I haven’t decided which one yet. So far, I’ve completed Duolingo courses in Spanish, Japanese, Italian, Scottish Gaelic, Danish, Swedish, Dutch, Irish, Finnish, Czech, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Esperanto and Romanian.

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