Here’s the latest news from the world of Omniglot.
New language pages:
New numbers pages:
New Tower of Babel translations: Alur, Akha, Adhola, Dangme, Achi and Abua.
On the Omniglot blog there’s a new post entitled Speading Sweetness about how words for honey, mead and related things possibly spread throughout Europe and as far as China and Japan. There’s also the usual Language Quiz. See if you can guess what language this is:
Here’s a clue: this language is spoken mainly in northern India, and also in eastern Nepal.
The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Forest Enets (Баи), a dialect of Enets (Онэй база), a Samoyedic language spoken in Krasnoyarsk Krai in Siberia in the Russian Federation.
In this week’s Celtic Pathways podcast, Charming Witches, we look into the possible Celtic roots of words for witch in some Romance languages, such as bruja in Spanish.