Omniglot News (13/10/24)

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

New language pages:

• Djabugay, a Pama-Nyungan language spoken in Queensland in northeastern Australia.
• Lamalama, a Pama-Nyungan language spoken in Queensland in the northeastern Australia.
• Warao, a language isolate spoken in Venezuela, Guyana and Suriname.
• Kapóng, a Cariban language spoken in Guyana, Venezuela and Brazil.

New constructed script: Arkyn, an alternative way to write English created by Hanson Walker and designed for discreet and efficient communication.

New constructed script: Nyctography, a substitution cipher for English created by the author Lewis Carroll in 1891 to enable him to write in the dark when ideas came to him in the middle of the night.

New numbers pages:

• Arvanitic (arbërisht), a variety of Albanian spoken in southern Greece.
• Alur (Dho-Alur), a Southern Luo language spoken in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

On the Omniglot blog there’s a new post entitled Jack Of All Trades about the origins of that saying, and related sayings in English and other languages. There’s also the usual Language Quiz. See if you can guess what language this is:

http://www.omniglot.com/soundfiles/blog/quiz131024.mp3

Here’s a clue: this language is spoken mainly in southwestern China and northeastern Myanmar.

The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Samogitian (žemaitiu kalba), an Eastern Baltic language spoken in the Samogitia region in western Lithuania.

In this week’s Celtic Pathways podcast, Garters, we discover the Celtic roots of words for garter in English and French.

On the Celtiadur blog there’s a new post about words for Darkness and related things

I also made improvements to the Guugu Yimithirr language page.

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