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Omniglot News (19/10/25)
Season 1 Episode 215
Here’s the latest news from the world of Omniglot.
New writing script: New Phonetic Character (上海土音字寫法), a script created by the Rev. Tarleton Perry Crawford in the 1850s to write Shanghainese.
New constructed script: Evolved Alphabet, an experimental alphabet for a future form of English created by TheDankBoi69.
New language pages:
- Kumam (Ikokolemu), a Southern Luo language spoken in the Eastern Region of Uganda.
- Ki (tukí), a Mbam language spoken in the Central Region of Cameroon.
- Gungu (Lugungu), a Northeast Bantu language spoken in the Western Region of Uganda.
New numbers pages:
- Gungu (Lugungu), a Northeast Bantu language spoken in the Western Region of Uganda.
- Saanich (SENĆOŦEN), a Salishan language spoken on Vancouver Island in Canada.
On the Omniglot blog there’s a new post entitled String Phones in which we find links between the Swahili word simu (phone) with words for string, semaphore and related things, 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 Andhra Pradesh in India.
The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Babine-Witsuwitʼen, a Northern Athabaskan language spoken in parts of British Columbia in Canada.
In this week’s Adventure in Etymology, Fact & Fiction, we’re uncovering some facts about the words fact and fiction.
It’s also available on Instagram
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