Here’s the latest news from the world of Omniglot.
There are new language pages about:
New adapted script: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Arabialainen Kirjaimisto (سوُوَمالایس-ئوُگریلاینەن ئارابیئالاینەن کیریامیستوَ ) / Finno-Ugric Arabic Alphabet, an adaptation of the Arabic script to write Finnish, Estonian and Hungarian devised by A. Elbrens.
New numbers pages:
New idiom page: The Grass is Always Greener (on the other side of the fence) containing equivalents of this saying in various languages.
I also wrote a new song based on this idiom called The Side Other. It goes something like this:
On the Omniglot blog there’s a new post called Losing the North, which is about various ways to say that you’re lost, dazed or confused in French, and there’s the usual Language Quiz. See if you can guess what language this is:
Here’s a clue: this language is spoken in Colombia.
The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was