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Omniglot News (22/02/26)

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

New language pages:

  • Ipulo, a Central Tivoid language spoken in the Southwest and Northwest regions of Cameroon.
  • Isu, a Central Tivoid language spoken in the Menchum Department of the Northwest Region of Cameroon.
  • Baraba Tatar (Парабачы), a variety of Siberia Tatar, a Turkic a language spoken in Siberia in Russia.
  • Ralte (Râlte Pau), a Northeastern Kuki-Chin language spoken in Mizoram, Manipur and Tripura in the northeast of India.

    • New adapted script: Cantonese Cyrillic (Ғоңдұңва Сәйлейї Зимоў), a way to write Cantonese with the Cyrillic alphabet devised by Dijacz.

    New numbers pages:

    • Sisaali (Sɩsaalɩ), a Southern Gur language spoken in southern Burkina Faso.
    • Edo (Ẹ̀dó), a Volta-Congo language spoken mainly in Edo State in southern Nigeria.
    • Ralte (Râlte Pau), a Northeastern Kuki-Chin language spoken in Mizoram, Manipur and Tripura in India.

      • New Tower of Babel translation in: Edo (Ẹ̀dó)

      This week on the Omniglot blog there’s a new post entitled Pages, Pagans & Peasants, in which we find out whether the words page, pagan, peasant and pheasant are related, and there’s the usual language quiz.

      See if you guess what language this is:

      http://www.omniglot.com/soundfiles/blog/quiz220226.mp3

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

      The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Kuuk Thaayorre, a Pama-Nyungan language spoken in Queensland, Australia.

      In this week’s Adventure in Etymology, entitled Plain Planes, we find out if the words plain, plane and plan are related.

      It’s also available on Instagram and TikTok.

      There’s also a new post on the Celtiadur blog this week entitled Knowing Recognition about words for to know, to recognize and related things in Celtic languages.

      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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