Omniglot News (07/09/25)

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

New language pages:

• Inuinnaqtun (ᐃᓄᐃᓐᓇᖅᑐᓐ‎), an Inuit language spoken in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories in northern Canada.


• Pare (Kipare), a Northeast Coast Bantu language spoken the Kilimanjaro Region in northeastern Tanzania.


• Kwamera (Nɨninɨfe), a Southern Oceanic language spoken on Tanna Island in Tafea Province in the south of Vanuatu.

New numbers pages:

• Inuinnaqtun (ᐃᓄᐃᓐᓇᖅᑐᓐ‎), an Inuit language spoken in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories in northern Canada.


• Kwamera (Nɨninɨfe), a Southern Oceanic language spoken on Tanna Island in Tafea Province in the south of Vanuatu.


• Luchazi (Chiluchazi), a Bantu language spoken mainly in Angola, and also in Zambia and Namibia.

New constructed script: Mata Kain, an alternative script for Malay and Indonesian created by Muhammad Rasyid Taufiqul Hafidz and inspired by traditional Malay weaving patterns.

New constructed script: Artist’s Neo-English, an alternative way to write English designed by Nixon Nguyen.

On the Omniglot blog there a new post entitled Yielding Payment in which we find connections between the word yield and payments, tax and gold, 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 Siberia.

The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Xârâcùù, a Southern New Caledonian language spoken in the North Province of New Caledonia.

In this week’s Adventure in Etymology, Unkempt Combs, we find links between the words unkempt, comb and cam, and find out whether you be just kempt.

It’s also available on Instagram and TikTok.

On the Celtiadur blog there’s a new post entitled Winnowing Wheat about words for wheat, winnowing and related things in Celtic languages

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