Omniglot News (17/11/24)

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

New language pages:

• Terik (Tɛ́ɛrık), a Southern Nilotic language spoken in western Kenya.
• Nandi (Naanti), a Southern Nilotic language spoken in the Rift Valley Province in western Kenya.
• Kipsigis (Kıpsıkııs), a Southern Nilotic language spoken in the Rift Valley Province in the southwest of Kenya.
• Ngoni (Chingoni), a Southern Bantu language spoken in Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique and Malawi.

New phrases page: Ngoni (Chingoni), a Southern Bantu language spoken in Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique and Malawi.

New numbers page: Ngoni (Chingoni), a Southern Bantu language spoken in Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique and Malawi.

New constructed script: Eŭsfligudo, which was created by Zmitro Lapcionak as an abugida or syllabic alphabet for writing Esperanto.

New constructed script: Funemon, a decorative alphabet created by Simon Ager in which the letters look like monsters and the words look like viking ships.

On the Omniglot blog there a new post entitled Kaput Capes in which we look into the origins of the word kaput and find connections with words like cape, chapter and cap, and there’s the usual Language Quiz. See if you can guess what language this is:

http://www.omniglot.com/soundfiles/blog/quiz171124.mp3

Here’s a clue: this language is spoken in northern Italy.

The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Baure, a Southern Arawakan language spoken in northeastern Bolivia. The recording comes from YouTube.

In this week’s Adventure in Etymology, Monitoring Monsters, we discover possible connections between monitors, monsters, and maybe money and music. It’s also available on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok

On the Celtiadur blog there’s a new post entitled Gritty Gravel about words for gravel, grit and related things in Celtic languages.

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