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Omniglot News (10/03/24)

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Episode • Mar 10, 2024 • 2m

Omniglot News

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

There are new language pages about:

  • Andoque (Paasi-ahá), a language isolate or a Witotoan language spoken in southern Colombia.
  • Berom (Cèn Bèrom), a Benue-Congo language spoken in the north of Plateau State in central Nigeria.
  • Hdi (xdí), a Chadic language spoken mainly in the Far North Region of Cameroon

New constructed script: Wind-and-Leaf Script, an alphabet invented by Kitsune Sobo as the native script of the Gods of Ooseyard (“God World”) in the Rhodinoverse (a fictional multiverse).

Sample text in Wind-and-Leaf Script

New fictional script: Neo-Chakobsa, a constructed script and language developed by American linguist David J. Peterson for the Dune film series.

Sample text in Neo-Chakobsa

New numbers pages:

  • Berom (Cèn Bèrom), a Benue-Congo language spoken in the north of Plateau State in central Nigeria.
  • Hdi (xdí), a Chadic language spoken mainly in the Far North Region of Cameroon.

There’s a new Omniglot blog post entitled Clinking Hardware about the French word quincaillerie (hardware store, hardware, junk), and there’s the usual Language Quiz. See if you can guess what language this is:

Here’s a clue: this language is spoken mainly in Mali, and also in other parts of West Africa.

The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Paicî, a New Caledonian language spoken in the North Province of New Caledonia. From YouTube.

In this week’s Adventure in Etymology, Shambling Shambles, we shamble around looking into the shambolic origins of the words shamble and shambles.

On the Celtiadur blog there’s a new post about words for Thin and Slender and related things.

I also made improvements to the Southern Ndebele, Northern Ndebele,

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