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Omniglot News (01/06/25)

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Episode • Jun 1 • 3m

Omniglot News

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

New language pages:

  • Bambalang (Chrambo), a Grassfields Southern Bantoid language spoken in Cameroon.
  • Bila (kiBila), a Bantu language spoken in Ituri Province in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • Budu (Ɨbʉdhʉ), a Bantu language spoken in Orientale Province in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

New numbers pages:

  • Zotung (Zo), a Kuki-Chin language spoken mainly in Chin State in western Myanmar.
  • Yine, a Southern Arawakan language spoken mainly in eastern and southern Peru.

New constructed script: Ilo Reverse Abugida, an alternative writing system for Hawaiian invented by TheDankBoi69 and based on the Maldivian Thaana script.

Sample text in Hawaiian in the Ilo Reverse Abugida

New adapted script: Sawi Toki Pona, a way to write Toki Pona with the Shavian script devised by Aahan Kotian.

New article: Decoding Meanings in Spanish Color Expressions

On the Omniglot blog we find out when a tomato is not a tomato in a post entitled Foreign Eggplants, and there’s also the usual Language Quiz. See if you can guess what language this is:

Here’s a clue: this language is spoken in northern Queenland in Australia.

The mystery langu

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