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This week’s new languages are: Juang, Ye’kuana and Sandawe.
- Juang (ଜୁଆଙ୍) – a Munda language spoken in Odisha state in eastern India.
- Ye’kuana – a Cariban language spoken mainly in southern Venzuela, and also in northwest Brazil
- Sandawe (Sàndàwé kì’ìng) – a language isolate spoken in the Dodoma Region of central Tanzania.
There’s a new constructed script Thai-ResPriv, an alternative way to write Thai devised by Jay and Pailin Strong.
This week’s Omniglot blog posts were about The Pull of Pandas, and the usual language quiz.
The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Chulym (ӧс тили), a Siberian Turkic language spoken in the Republic of Khakassia in the south of the Russian Federation.
This week’s Celtiadur post was about kitchens and related words.
This week’s Adventure in Etymology looks at the origins of the word distract.
I finally made a new episode of the Radio Omniglot podcast this week about Japanese, and while I was doing that I got a bit distracted and made improvements to the Japanese language page on Omniglot.
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