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Omniglot News (31/08/25)

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Season 1 Episode 208

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

New language pages:

• Naman, a Southern Oceanic language spoken on Malekula Island in central Vanuatu.
• Mbugu (kiMbugu) / Maʼa (kiMaʼa), a Bantu language spoken in the Lushoto District in the Tanga Region in the northeast of Tanzania.
• Mwerlap (N̄wërlap), a Southern Oceanic language spoken in the Banks Islands in Torba Province of Vanuatu.

New adapted script: Tang-galog (𗒨𗓸𗈒𗄀𗄻𗄀𗈒), a way to write Tagalog with the Tangut script devised by Chen Carson D. Callueng.

New adapted script: New Futhorch (ᚾᚣᚹ ᚠᚢᚧᚩᚱᚳ), a way to write Modern English with Old English / Anglo-Saxon runes devised by John Higgins.

New numbers pages:

• Naman, a Southern Oceanic language spoken on Malekula Island in central Vanuatu.
• Mwerlap (N̄wërlap), a Southern Oceanic language spoken in the Banks Islands in Torba Province of Vanuatu.
• Newar (नेपाल भाषा), a Tibeto-Burman language spoken mainly in central Nepal, and also in northern India.

On the Omniglot blog there a new post entitled Facting Facts about the verbification of the word fact, and other fact-related factlets, factettes and factoids, 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 New Caledonia.

The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Iramba (Nilamba), a Bantu language spoken in the Singida Region in central Tanzania.

In this week’s Celtic Pathways podcast, Birches, we unearth the Celtic roots of words birch (tree) in various languages.