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Omniglot News (08/06/25)

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Episode • Jun 8 • 2m

Omniglot News

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

New language pages:

  • Bushong (Bushɔ́ɔ́ng), a Bantu language spoken in Kasai Province in the south of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • Guro, a Mande language spoken in the regions of Haut-Sassandra and Marahoué in central Ivory Coast.
  • Bissa (Bɩsa), a Mande language spoken in mainly in Burkina Faso and Ghana, and also in Togo and Ivory Coast.
  • Fuliiru (Kifuliiru), a Great Lakes Bantu language spoken in South Kivu Province in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

New numbers pages:

  • Rajasthani (राजस्थानी), a Western Indo-Aryan language spoken mainly in Rajasthan in northern India, and also in Pakistan.
  • Yabem (Jabêm), a Western Oceanic language spoken in Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea.
  • Bissa (Bɩsa), a Mande language spoken in mainly in Burkina Faso and Ghana, and also in Togo and Ivory Coast.

New Tower of Babel translation: Guro, a Mande language spoken in central Ivory Coast.

On the Omniglot blog we find connections between names such as Cathal, Ronald, Valerie and Walter in a post entitled Strong Names, 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 the northeast of India.

The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was: Wik-Mungkan, a Pama-Nyungan language spoken on the Cape York Peninsula in northern Queensland in the northeast of Australia.

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