Omniglot News (19/01/25)

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

New language pages:

• Lawangan, an East Barito language spoken in Central Kalimantan Province in Indonesia.
• Belait, a North Bornean language spoken mainly in Brunei, and also in northern Sarawak in Malaysia.

I started putting together a new phrases page containing translations of the phrase ‘So long, and thanks for all the fish’, which comes from Douglas Adams’ book by the same name. I’ll be adding more translations when I have a spare moment or two.

New adapated script: Linear-Tagalog, a way to write Tagalog mainly using glyphs from the Linear A and Linear B scripts of ancient Crete divised by Chen Carson D. Callueng.

On the Omniglot blog there’s a new post about Travelling Hopefully about the saying ‘it’s better to travel hopefully than to arrive’, and there’s the usual Language Quiz. See if you can guess what language this is:

http://www.omniglot.com/soundfiles/blog/quiz190125.mp3

Here’s a clue: this language is spoken in the Northern Territory of Australia.

The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was: Danwar (दनुवारी), a Bihari language spoken in eastern Nepal.

In this week’s Adventure in Etymology, entitled Cluttered Klutzes, we find connections between clutter, clods and klutzes.

It’s also available on Instagram and TikTok.

On the Celtiadur blog, there’s a new post entitled Spindly Axles about words for axle, axis, spindle and related things in Celtic languages.

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