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Omniglot News (02/02/25)

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Episode • Feb 2 • 2m

Omniglot News

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

New language pages:

  • Kabwa (Ekikabwa), a Northeast Bantu language spoken in the Mara Region in northern Tanzania.
  • Bagirmi (tàrà ɓármà), a Central Sudanic language spoken mainly in southwestern Chad, and also in Nigeria.
  • Naba (Tar Melbene), a Central Sudanic language spoken mainly in Batha-Est Prefecture in central Chad.

New numbers pages:

  • Zinza (Ecizinza), a Bantu language spoken in the Mwanza Region in northern Tanzania.
  • Kabwa (Ekikabwa), a Northeast Bantu language spoken in the Mara Region in northern Tanzania.

New adapated script: Tengwar for Ukrainian, a way to write Ukrainian with Tolkein’s Tengwar script devised by Murray Callahan.

Sample text in Tengwar for Ukrainian

On the Omniglot blog there’s a new post entitled Hydraulic Plumbers, about how the word for plumber in Italian (idraulico) differs from words from plumber in other Romance languages, 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 the Indian Union Territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was: East Pomeranian (Ostpommersch), an East Low German language spoken mainly in Brazil, and also in the USA.

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