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Here’s the latest news from the world of Omniglot.
There’s a new writing system called the Naasioi Otomaung Alphabet, which was created by Chief Peter Karatapi to write Naasioi, a language spoken on the island of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea.
There are new language pages about:
- Ghari, an Oceanic language spoken in Vaturanga in the northwest of Guadalcanal Island in the Solomon Islands.
- Naasioi, a South Bougainville language spoken Kieta District of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea.
- Selaru (tel Masylarkwe), a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in the Tanimbar Islands in the Maluku Tenggara Barat Regency of Maluku Province in the south of Malaysia.
New adapted script: Malay Shavian (𐑳𐑚𐑡𐑳𐑛 𐑥𐑩𐑤𐑳𐑘𐑫 𐑖𐑳𐑢𐑦), which was devised by Damian Izrullah bin Abdullah as an alternative way to write Malay, Indonesian and other Austronesian languages with the Shavian alphabet.
New adapated script: Magyargari (मजगरि), a way to write Hungarian with the Devanagari script devised by Xavier Merica.
मिन्देन् एम्बेरि लैण् सबदोन् सिुलेतिक् ऐश् एजेन्लिै मैल्तशाग ऐश् योग वन्। अस़् एम्बेरेक्, ऐश्सेल् ऐश् लेल्किइश्मेरेत्तेल् बिर्वान्, एज्माश्शल् सेम्बेन् तेश्त्वैरि सेल्लेम्बेन् केल्ल् होज् विशेल्तेश्शेनेक्।
There are new numbers pages in:
- Ghari, an Oceanic language spoken in Vaturanga in the northwest of Guadalcanal Island in the Solomon Islands.
- Selaru (tel Masylarkwe), a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in the Tanimbar Islands in the Maluku Tenggara Barat Regency of Maluku Province in the south of Malaysia.
- Ida’an, a North Bornean language spoken in Sabah, Malaysia.
There are new translations of the Tower of Babel story in Roviana, Ghari, Cheke Holo, Central Sinama, Nigerian Pidgin, Western Bolivian Guaraní and Selaru.
On the Omniglot blog there’s a new post about the Japanese expression 歩行者天国 (hokōsha tengoku), which means a pedestrianised area, or literally “Pedestrian Paradise”, and there’s the usual Language Quiz. See if you can guess what language this is:
Here’s a clue: this is language is spoken in Nigeria.
The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Bakhtiari Luri (بختیاری), a Western Iranian language spoken mainly in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province in southwestern Iran.
On the Celtiadur blog we’re looking at words for Speckled and Spotted and related things in Celtic languages.
In this week’s Adventure in Etymology we snuffle around the origins of the word Snort.
On the Celtic Pathways podcast we find out what links the word Javelin with words for fork and related things.
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