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

New language pages:

• Datooga, a Southern Nilotic language spoken in parts of northern Tanzania.


• Sobei, a Western Oceanic language spoken in Papua Province in eastern Indonesian.


• Defaka (défàkà), an Ijoid language spoken in Rivers State in southern Nigeria.

New numbers pages:

• Defaka (défàkà), an Ijoid language spoken in Rivers State the southern Nigeria.


• Yapese (Thin nu Waqab), an Oceanic language spoken mainly on the island of Yap in Micronesia.


• Ulithian (Yulidiy), a Micronesian language spoken mainly in Ulithi Atoll in Yap State in Micronesia.

New constructed script: Skálmvargic, which was invented by Kitsune Sobo as the native script of the Skálmvargar (Bladewolves) in the fictional Rhodinoverse

New adapted script: RoHangul, which is a way to write Romanian with the Korean Hangul script created by Laura Brauman.

On the Omniglot blog there’s a new post entitled Buttery Donkeys, about words for butter and donkey in Italian, Spanish and other languages. There’s also the usual Language Quiz. See if you can guess what language this is:

Here’s a clue: this language is considered a separate language by some people, but a dialect of another language by others.

The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Hixkaryána, a Southern Guiana language spoken in Pará and Amazonas states in northern Brazil.

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In this week’s Adventure in Etymology, Random Origins, we’re looking into the origins of the word origin, and randomly looking at the word random.

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On the Celtiadur blog there’s a new post entitled Spinning, Twisting & Turning, about words for spin, twist, turn and related things, and I made improvements to the Legs & Feet post.

I also made improvements to the Yapese language page.

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