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Omniglot News (17/08/25)

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

New constructed script: Surat Binua, which was created by Reza Sumanda as a way to write Kendayan, a Land Dayak language spoken in Indonesia and Malaysia.

New constructed script: Tenzu, which was created by Reza Sumanda as a way to write Indonesian, and inspired by the Soyombo and Tibetan scripts.

New language pages:

  • Kuhane (Chikuhane / Chisubia), a Bantu language spoken in Namibia, Botswana and Zambia.
  • Kendayan / Salako (Bahasa Dameà / Katà Diri’), a Malayic / Land Dayak language spoken in Sarawak in Malaysia and West Kalimantan in Indonesia.
  • Paku, an East Barito language spoken in the East Barito Regency in Central Kalimantan Province in Indonesia.
  • Motuna, a South Bougainville language spoken in mainly in Siwai Rural LLG in Bougainville in Papua New Guinea.

    • New numbers pages:

    • Lawangan, an East Barito language spoken in Central Kalimantan Province in Indonesia.
    • Motuna, a South Bougainville language spoken in mainly in Siwai Rural LLG in Bougainville in Papua New Guinea.
    • Vurës, a Southern Oceanic language spoken on Vanua Lava Island in Vanuatu.

      • On the Omniglot blog we investigate why the words flammable and inflammable mean the same thing in a post called Inflammability, and there’s the usual Language Quiz. See if you can guess what language this is:

      http://www.omniglot.com/soundfiles/blog/quiz170825.mp3

      Here’s a clue: this language is spoken mainly in Maharashtra and Telangana in central India.

      The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Unami / Lenape, an Eastern Algonquian language that was historically spoken in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware in the USA, and later in Ontario and Oklahoma. It is currently being revived.

      In this week’s Celtic Pathways podcast, we uncover the possible Celtic roots of words for heron in Romance languages in a post entitled Herons.

      It’s also available on Instagram and TikTok.

      On the Celtiadur blog there’s a new post entitled Swearing Oaths about words for oath, vow, (to) swear and various other things in Celtic languages.

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      https://www.omniglot.com/news/
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      https://www.facebook.com/Omniglot-100430558332117

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