Omniglot News (01/10/23)
Here’s the latest news from the world of Omniglot. There are new language pages about: * Nume, a Northern Vanuatu language spoken in Gaua, one of the Banks Islands in Torba Province in the north of Vanuatu. * Makaa (mǝ́kaá), a Bantu language spoken in the Meka area in the southeast of Cameroon. * Sidama (Sidaamu Afoo), a Cushitic language spoken in the Sidama Region in southern Ethiopia. New numbers pages: * Mwotlap (M̄otlap), a Southern Oceanic language spoken mainly on Motolava island in Vanuatu. * Nume, a Northern Vanuatu language spoken in Gaua, one of the Banks Islands in Torba Province in the north of Vanuatu. * Eastern Tawbuid, a South Mangyan language spoken on the island of Mindoro in the Philippines. New Tower of Babel translations: Basa, Northern Tepehuán, Sidama There’s a new Omniglot blog post called Early Peaches, which unpeels the origins of the word apricot and related fruits, and there’s the usual Language Quiz. See if you can guess what language this is: Here’s a clue: this language is spoken southern Sudan. The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Itelmen (итэнмэн), a Chukotko-Kamchatkan language spoken on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Siberia in the Russian Far East region. There’s a new Celtiadur post called Impeccable Peccadillos, which is about words for sin, crime and related things. Improved Celtiadur posts: Fists, Palms, Hands & Arms, Heat and Narrow In this week’s Celtic Pathways podcast, we get to grips with words for Hand and related things in Celtic languages. I also made separate pages for the Northern Tepehuán, Southeastern Tepehuán and Southwestern Tepehuán languages. And finally, here’s a new song I wrote this week Ruith Air Falbh / Run Away! Simon Ager · Ruith Air Falbh / Run Away! For more Omniglot News see: https://www.omniglot.com/news/ https://twitter.com/Omniglossia https://www.facebook.com/groups/omniglot/