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Omniglot News (23/11/25)
Season 1 Episode 220
Here’s the latest news from the world of Omniglot.
New language pages:
- Kwaʼ (Bakwa’), a Bamileke language spoken in the southwest of Cameroon.
- Ndau (ChiNdau), a Bantu language spoken mainly in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and South Africa.
- Ndonga (OshiNdonga), a Bantu language spoken mainly in the north of Namibia, and also in southern Angola.
- Arammba (Aramba), a Tonda language spoken in the Morehead area in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea.
New numbers pages:
- Ndonga (OshiNdonga), a Bantu language spoken in northern Namibia and southern Angola.
- Arammba (Aramba), a Tonda language spoken in the Morehead area in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea.
New Tower of Babel translation: Ndau (ChiNdau)
New constructed script: Enjay, an alternative way to write English invented by Toonmaker.
New adapted script: Thaana-Wayuu (ތާނަ ޥަޔޫ), was devised by Pablo Villa Uhia as a way to write Wayuu, an Arawakan language spoken in Venezuela and Colombia, with the Thaana script, as used for the Maldivian language.
On the Omniglot blog this week there’s a new post entitled A Complete Canard!, which looks at the various meanings of the word canard in French and English, 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 the northwest of Brazil.
The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Goral (Górolski), a West Slavic language (or dialect) spoken in southern Poland, northern Slovakia and northeastern Czechia.
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