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Omniglot News (26/01/25)

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

New language pages:

  • Waiwai, a Cariban language spoken mainly in northern Brazil, and also in Guyana and Suirname.
  • Enawene Nawe (Enawenê-Nawê), a Southern Arawakan language spoken in State of Mato Grosso in western Brazil.
  • Jah Hut, an Aslian language spoken mainly in Pahang state in the south of peninsula Malaysia.
  • Brao, a Bahnaric language spoken in Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand.

    • New numbers page:

    • Mazandarani, a northwestern Iranian language spoken in the northwest of Iran.

      • New adapated script: Saurashtra for Gujarati (ꢱꣃꢬꢵꢰ꣄ꢜ꣄ꢬ ꢭꢶꢦꢶ), a way to write Gujarati with the Saurashtra alphabet devised by Aahan Kotian.

      On the Omniglot blog there’s a new post entilted Kinder Kinder, in which we discover whether the words Kinder (children) in German and kind(er) in English are related, as in the joke ‘No matter how kind you are … German children are Kinder’, and there’s the usual Language Quiz. See if you can guess what language this is:

      http://www.omniglot.com/soundfiles/blog/quiz260125.mp3

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

      The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was: Tiwi, a language isolate spoken on the Tiwi Islands in the Northern Territory of Australia.

      In this week’s episode of Celtic Pathways, Calamitous Swords, we discover the possible Celtic roots of Romance swords and Slavic hammers.

      It’s also available on Instagram and TikTok.

      On the Celtiadur blog, there’s a new post entitled Birth about words for birth, to be born, to procreate and related things in Celtic languages.

      Improved pages: Hiligaynon and Mazandarani phrases pages.

      For more Omniglot News, see:

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

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