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Omniglot News (23/02/25)

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Episode • Feb 23 • 2m

Omniglot News

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

New language pages:

  • Maʼanyan, an East Barito language spoken in the provinces of Central Kalimantan and South Kalimantan in Indonesia.
  • Nuaulu, an East Central Maluku language spoken on Seram Island in eastern Indonesia.
  • Uma, a Celebic language spoken mainly in Central Sulawesi Province in central Indonesia.

New constructed script: Tendrilis, an alternative way to write English (and other languages) designed by Anomalis to look like drawings of vines, leaves and tendrils.

Sample text in Tendrilis

New constructed script: Esoteric Circle Script, an alternative way to write English with symbols that resemble pie charts (or clocks) devised by Aiden Neuding.

Sample text in Esoteric Circle Script

Sample text in Székelycédé

New adapted script: Székelycédé, a way to write English with the Old Hungarian script devised by NPC30.

New numbers pages:

  • Uma, a Celebic language spoken mainly in Central Sulawesi Province in central Indonesia.
  • Wolio, a Celebic language spoken on Buton Island in Southeast Sulawesi in Indonesia.
  • Moronene, a Celebic language spoken in Southeast Sulawesi in Indonesia.

On the Omniglot blog there’s a new post entitled The House of Jeroboam, we discover who Jeroboam was, why his house is associated with chaos, at least in Welsh, and what a Jeroboam is. There’s also the usual Language Quiz. See if you can guess what language this is:

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