Here’s the latest news from the world of Omniglot.
There are new language pages about:
New numbers pages:
New Tower of Babel translations: Basa, Northern Tepehuán, Sidama
There’s a new Omniglot blog post called Early Peaches, which unpeels the origins of the word apricot and related fruits, and there’s the usual Language Quiz. See if you can guess what language this is:
Here’s a clue: this language is spoken southern Sudan.
The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Itelmen (итэнмэн), a Chukotko-Kamchatkan language spoken on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Siberia in the Russian Far East region.
There’s a new Celtiadur post called Impeccable Peccadillos, which is about words for sin, crime and related things.
Improved Celtiadur posts: Fists, Palms, Hands & Arms, Heat and Narrow
In this week’s Celtic Pathways podcast, we get to grips with words for Hand and related things in Celtic languages.
I also made separate pages for the Northern Tepehuán, Southeastern Tepehuán and