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Omniglot News (19/04/26)

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

New language pages:

  • Metaʼ (Mɨta’), an Eastern Grassfields language spoken in the North West Region of Cameroon.
  • Romani Tatar (Romaní Tatarja), a Kipchak Turkic language spoken in northeast Bulgaria and southeast Romania.
  • Kedang (tutuq nanang wela), a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken on Lembata Island in East Nusa Tenggara in eastern Indonesia.
  • Waris, a Trans-New-Guinea language spoken in Sandaun Province of Papua New Guinea and Papua Province in Indonesia.

    • New numbers pages:

    • Waris, a Trans-New-Guinea language spoken in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia.
    • Oroqun, a Northern Tungusic language spoken in Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang in northern China.

      • New constructed script: Urisaiyo, an alternative way to write Japanese, English and other languages created by Eteluptra.

      New constructed script: Stylogic, a phonemic alphabet for English and other languages created by Richard Agnew.

      This week on the Omniglot blog we explore connections between the words nexus, annex(e) and connection in a post entitled A Nexus of Connections, and there’s the usual language quiz. See if you guess what language this is:

      http://www.omniglot.com/soundfiles/blog/quiz190426.mp3

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

      The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Tawellemmet (Tawəlləmmət / ⵜⵓⵍⵎⵓⵜ / تَاوَلَّمَّتْ), a Southern Tuareg language spoken in Mali, Niger and Nigeria.

      On the Celtiadur blog this week there’s a new post about words for Dukes, duchesses are related things.

      Here’s a little song I wrote recently called Reaching For The Sky inspired by idioms meaning to give up or quit such as ‘to throw in the towel’.

      Simon Ager · Reaching For The Sky

      Unfortunately I didn’t get round to make a new Adventure in Etymology podcast this week as I was busy with other stuff, and I recorded this news a day early as I’ll be in London on Sunday (19th April) for a concert by the South Korean band Rolling Quartz (롤링쿼츠), which I’m very much looking forward to.

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