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Omniglot News (03/03/24)

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Episode • Mar 3, 2024 • 3m

Omniglot News

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

There are new language pages about:

  • Ghomalaʼ (Ghɔmáláʼ), a Bamileke language spoken in the West Region of Cameroon.
  • Feʼfeʼ (Fèʼéfěʼè), a Bamileke language spoken in the West Region of Cameroon
  • Lengo, a Southeast Solomonic language spoken on Guadalcanal Island in the Solomon Islands.
  • Lau, a Southeast Solomonic language spoken on Malaita Island in the Solomon Islands.

New constructed script: Fana, a syllabic script created by Brian Drake to write his constructed language, fana, which is based on Toki Pona, but with more phonemes, a more complex grammar, and a larger vocabulary.

Sample text in fana

New numbers pages:

  • Ghomalaʼ (Ghɔmáláʼ), a Bamileke language spoken in the West Region of Cameroon.
  • Lengo, a Southeast Solomonic language spoken on Guadalcanal Island in the Solomon Islands.
  • Lau, a Southeast Solomonic language spoken on Malaita Island in the Solomon Islands.

There’s a new Omniglot blog post entitled Overflowing Vases about ways to say ‘the straw that broke the camel’s back’ and similar things in various 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 New Caledonia.

The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Xong (Dut Xonb), a Hmong-Mien language spoken in southern China.

In this week’s episode of the Celtic Pathways podcast, entitled Bijou Fingers, we find Celtic fingers among French jewellery.

On the Celtiadur blog there’s a new post entitled Long Distance, about words for long, distant and related things, and I made improvements to the Fingers and Toes,

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