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Omniglot News (11/05/25)

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

New language pages:

  • Bujeba (Bisio), a Bantu language spoken in the Litoral Province in the west of Equatorial Guinea.
  • Gyele (gyɛ̀lì), a Bantu language spoken in the Océan Department in the South Province of Cameroon.
  • Kwasio, a Bantu language spoken along the coast of south western Cameroon and north western Equatorial Guinea.
  • Mbosi (Embɔ́si), a Bantu language spoken in the Cuvette and Plateaux departments in the Republic of the Congo.

    • New numbers pages:

    • Hadza (Hadzane), a language isolate spoken near Lake Eyasi in northern Tanzania.
    • Gascon (Gascoun), a variety of Occitan spoken mainly in southwestern France and northeastern Spain.
    • Bearnese (biarnés / bearnés), a variety of Gascon spoken in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.

      • On the Omniglot blog we find out what the words knot and knit have to do with King Canute, and how they connect to Bluetooth in a post entitled Knotted Knitting, and there’s also the usual Language Quiz. See if you can guess what language this is:

      http://www.omniglot.com/soundfiles/blog/quiz110525.mp3

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

      The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was: Sar(a) (Madjingay), a Central Sudanic language spoken in southern Chad.

      In this week’s Celtic Pathways podcast, Bearing Cradles, we discover the Celtic roots of words for cradle, crib and related things in Portuguese and other languages.

      It’s also available on Instagram and TikTok.

      On the Celtiadur blog there’s a new post entitled Saponaceous Soap about words for soap and related things in Celtic languages.

      I also made improvements to the Celtiadur post entitled Ceilidh Companions, and improved the Daggers Alphabet page.

      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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