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Omniglot News (18/05/25)

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Episode • May 18 • 3m

Omniglot News

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

New language pages:

  • Nawdm (nawdm), a Gur language spoken in northern Togo and southern and eastern Ghana.
  • Yom (Pila), a Gur language spoken in the Atacora, Borgou and Donga departments in the northwest of Benin.
  • Akuapem, a variety of Akan spoken mainly in southern Ghana, and in the southeast of the Ivory Coast.
  • Likpe (Sεkpεlé), a Kwa language spoken in the Hoehoe District of the Volta Region in southeastern Ghana.

New numbers pages:

  • Nawdm (nawdm), a Gur language spoken in Togo and Ghana.
  • Loma (Löömàgòòi), a Southwestern Mande language spoken in northern Liberia.
  • Mandari (Kútúk nà mùndárì), an Eastern Nilotic language spoken in Central Equatoria state in South Sudan.

New phrases pages:

  • Nawdm (nawdm), a Gur language spoken in Togo and Ghana.

On the Omniglot blog there’s a new post entitled Rustling Frou-frous – a frou-frou little post I rustled up about ways to say rustle in French, 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 Guyana and Brazil.

The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was: Batak Mandailing (Saro Mandailing), a Southern Batak language spoken mainly in North Sumatra Province in Indonesia.

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