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Omniglot News (26/10/25)
Season 1 Episode 216
Here’s the latest news from the world of Omniglot.
New language pages:
- Bangolan (Bǎŋgulaŋ), an Eastern Grassfields language spoken in the Northwest Province of Cameroon.
- Chopi (Cicopi), a Southern Bantu language spoken mainly in Inhambane Province in southern Mozambique.
- Palembang (Baso Pelémbang / باسو ڤليمباڠ), a Malayic language spoken in Palembang in South Sumatra Province in Indonesia.
New constructed script: Neo Alfabet, a phonetic script created by François Toulot to write almost any language.
New numbers pages:
- Bangolan (Bǎŋgulaŋ), an Eastern Grassfields language spoken in the Northwest Province of Cameroon.
- Arta, a Northern Luzon language spoken in northern Luzon in the Philippines.
New family words pages:
- Gothic (𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌹𐍃𐌺𐌰), an East Germanic language spoken in parts of Crimea until the 17th century.
- Alsatian (Ëlsässisch), a West Germanic language spoken mainly in Alsace in northeastern France.
This week on the Omniglot blog we find out when a forest is not a forest in a post called Sylvan Forests, 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 southern Cameroon.
The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Yerakula (ஏறுகள), a Dravidian language spoken in Andhra Pradesh, in the southeast of India.
In this week’s Adventure in Etymology we search the ether for the elemental origins of the word Quintessence.
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