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Omniglot News (18/01/26)

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

New language pages:

  • Ambele, a Grassfields language spoken in the North West Region of Cameroon.
  • Babanki (Kə̀jóm), a Grassfields language spoken in Mezam Department in the North West Region of Cameroon.
  • Sarangani, a Southern Manobo language spoken in the Davao Region in Mindanao in the Philippines.

    • New numbers pages:

    • Chamacoco (Ɨshɨr), a Zamucoan language spoken in the Alto Paraguay department in northern Paraguay.
    • Western Fijian (Nadrogaa), an Oceanic language spoken in western Fiji.
    • South Slavey (Dene Zhatıé / ᑌᓀ ᒐ), a Northern Athabaskan language spoken in northern Canadai.

      • New adapted script: Slovarabik (سلوڤارابيك), a way to write Slovak with the Arabic script devised by Martin Varga.


      On the Omniglot blog this week there’s a new post entitled Outside Aliens about word for foreigner / outsider in Chinese and Japanese. There is also a new language quiz. Can you guess what language this is?

      http://www.omniglot.com/soundfiles/blog/quiz180126.mp3

      Here’s a clue: this language is spoken in Ethiopia and Sudan.

      The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Yaqui (Yoem Noki), an Uto-Aztecan language spoken in Sonora and Sinaloa in Mexico & in Arizona in the USA.

      There’s also a new post Celtiadur post this week entitled Smoothly Slippery about words for smooth, slippery and related things in Celtic languages.

      In other news, this week I’ve mainly been in Hong Kong. It’s changed a lot since I was last here 1990s, and I’ve visited some familar places and some new ones. There seems to be a lot more of everythings here – people, buildings, traffic etc, and it’s quite a constrast to Zhaoqing, which seemed quieter and more relaxed in comparison.

      You can see some photos on Flickr.

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

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