Here’s the latest news from the world of Omniglot.
There are new language pages about:
New constructed script: Foamemes, which is an alternative way to write American English devised by Earthcat Terrence and Rex Angular
New constructed script: Jackson’s Dialect Phonetic Alphabet (JDPA), which was devised by Jackson Green as an alternative way to write Canadian English.
New constructed script: Liran, which was invented by Seth Zaw to write his constructed language, Liran.
New numbers pages:
On the Omniglot blog there’s a new post called Gadding About about the meanings and origins of the word gad and related words, and there’s the usual Language Quiz. See if you can guess what language this is:
Here’s a clue: this language was spoken in Australia, and is currently being revived.
The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Capiznon (Kapisnon), a Central Bisayan language spoken in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines.
There’s a new Celtiadur post called Fearful Dread, which looks into some fearful and dreadful words in Celtic languages.
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