Omniglot News (06/08/23)
Here’s the latest news from the world of Omniglot. There are new language pages about: * Thai Song (ꪩꪱꪫꪶꪎ꫁ꪉ / ลาวโซ่ง), a Southwestern Tai language spoken in central Thailand * Oroko, a Bantu language spoken in southern Cameroon. * Ninde, a Southern Oceanic language spoken in central Vanuatu. New fictional script: Sheikah, which is used to write English and Japanese in the games The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity. New numbers pages: * Kupsabiny, a Southern Nilotic language spoken in eastern Uganda. * Ludic (lüüdin kiel’), a Finnic language spoken in part of the Republic of Karelia in Russia * Qashqai (Qaşqay dili), a Western Oghuz Turkic language spoken mainly in the Fars region of Iran. * Western Yugur (yoɣïr lar), a North East Turkic language spoken in Gansu Province in northwestern China. * Ili Turki (İlı turkeşi), a Turkic language spoken in northwestern China and Kazakhstan. On the Omniglot blog there’s a post entitled Smiling Hum about the Finnish word hymy (smile), and related words, and there’s the usual Language Quiz. See if you can guess what language this is: Here’s a clue: this language is spoken in Colombia The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Gawwada, a Cushitic language spoken in southern Ethiopia. There’s a new Celtiadur post about words for Blind and related things in Celtic languages, and I made improvements to the post about words for Kings and related things. In the Celtic Pathways podcast we uncover the Celtic roots of the word Cream. In other news, I went to two French conversation groups this week – the usual one on Thursday night in Bangor, and another one on Wednesday night in Dinas Dinlle. It was nice to meet some new people and to see a place I hadn’t been to before. For more Omniglot News see: https://www.omniglot.com/news/ https://twitter.com/Omniglossia https://www.facebook.com/groups/omniglot/ https://www.facebook.com/Omniglot-100430558332117 You can also listen to this podcast on: Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Stitcher, TuneIn, Podchaser, PlayerFM or podtail.