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Omniglot News (29/09/24)

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Episode • Sep 29, 2024 • 2m

Omniglot News

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

New language pages:

  • Anuak (Dha-Anywaa), a Western Nilotic language spoken in western Ethiopia and eastern South Sudan.
  • Belanda Bor (di Bor), a Western Nilotic language spoken in South Sudan.
  • Bawm, a Kuki-Chin-Naga language spoken mainly in Bangladesh, and also in India and Myanmar.
  • Keiyo, a Southern Nilotic language spoken in western Kenya.
  • Southern Oromo (Borana), a Lowland East Cushitic language spoken in Ethiopia and Kenya.

New numbers pages:

  • Anuak (Dha-Anywaa), a Western Nilotic language spoken in Ethiopia and South Sudan.
  • Bawm, a Kuki-Chin-Naga language spoken mainly in Bangladesh, India and Myanmar.
  • Southern Oromo (Borana), a Lowland East Cushitic language spoken in Ethiopia and Kenya.

On the Omniglot blog there’s a new post about words for Mushroom in Spanish, French and English, and a post called Snub Nosed Simians, about the Italian word scimmia (monkey, ape), and words for monkey in other languages. 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 northern Brazil.

The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Deg Xinag (Degexit’ank), a Northern Athabaskan language spoken in Alsaka in the USA.

In this week’s Celtic Pathways podcast, we investigate the possible Celtic roots of the word Jeans, and also the place names Genoa and Geneva, and find out how they’re connected to words for knee

On the Celtiadur blog there’s a new post entitled Voices about words for voice, word,

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