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Omniglot News (19/07/26)

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

New language pages:

  • Yali (Yalimo), a Trans-New-Guinea language spoken in Papua province of Indonesia.
  • Western Bukidnon Manobo (Minenub’ù), a Greater Central Philippine language spoken in the Northern Mindanao region of the Philippines. (the 2,400th language on Omniglot, by the way)
  • Komba, a Finisterre-Huon language spoken in Morobe Province in eastern Papua New Guinea.
  • Koreguaje (Koʼrevajʉ), a Tucanoan language spoken in the Caquetá Department in southern Colombia.

    • New numbers pages:

    • Izhem, a variety of Komi-Zyrian, a Permic language spoken in northwestern Russia.
    • Koreguaje (Koʼrevajʉ), a Tucanoan language spoken in the Caquetá Department in southern Colombia.

      • New Tower of Babel translations pages:

      • Nyangumarta, a Pama-Nyungan language spoken in Western Australia.
      • Gamo, a North Omotic language spoken in southwest Ethiopia.
      • Akuapem (Twi), a Kwa language spoken mainly southern Ghana, and also in Ivory Coast.
      • Khanty (Ханты), an Ugric language spoken in parts of the Tomsk Oblast in Russia

        • In this week’s Adventure in Etymology, entitled A Fountain of Fonts, we uncover the roots of the word font.

        It’s also available on Instagram and TikTok.

        On the Omniglot blog we find out what horses and gates have to do with breaking and entering in a post entitled Horse Gate, and there’s the usual language quiz. See if you guess what language this is:

        http://www.omniglot.com/soundfiles/blog/quiz190726.mp3

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

        The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Koryak, (чавʼчывэн), Chukotko-Kamchatkan language spoken in the Koryak Autonomous Region in the far east of the Russian Federation.

        On the Celtiadur blog this week there’s a new post entitled Bushy Hedges, about words for hedge, bush and related things in Celtic languages.

        In other news, I’m planning to make an ad-free version of Omniglot for people who support the site via Patreon, PayPal or Buy Me A Coffee, and those who contribute significantly in terms of content and/or corrections. This will take quite a while, as the site contains over 8,500 pages. I plan to start with the pages about writing systems.

        Which sections of the site would you most like to see in the ad-free version?

        For more Omniglot News, see:

        https://www.omniglot.com/news/
        https://www.facebook.com/groups/omniglot/
        https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100046466483286

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