Omniglot News (30/01/2022)

Here are details of the latest developments on Omniglot websites and blogs. There are four new language pages on Omniglot this week, which are: * Agutaynen, a Philippine language spoken in the Province of Palawan in the Mimaropa region in the east of the Philippines. * Jarud (ᠵᠠᠷᠤᠳ), a variety of Mongolian spoken in Jarud Banner in the east of Inner Mongolia in northern China. * Komering (Cawa Komering), a Lampungic language spoken in the Indonesian provinces of Lampung and South Sumatra in the south of Sumatra island. * Kaitag (хайдакьан гъай), a Northeast Caucasian language spoken in Dagestan in the south of the Russian Federation. There’s a new constructed script: Jyutcitzi (粵切字), which is a way to write Cantonese using combinations of Chinese characters to represent sounds phonetically which was devised by the Cantonese Script Reform Society. It looks something like this: There are a new numbers pages in: Chipewyan (Dënesųłıné), Sekani (Tse’khene) and Agutaynen, and there’s a new page about Cistercian Numbers, an interesting numeric system that was developed by Cisterican monks in the early 13th century. On the Omniglot blog this week there’s a post about words from Britain in various languages called Britland, and the usual Language Quiz. The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Kaitag (хайдакьан гъай), a Northeast Caucasian language spoken in Dagestan in the Russian Federation. This week’s Celtiadur post is about words for wings and related things in Celtic languages. I also made improvements to the Celtiadur post about verbs for To See & To Be. In the Adventure in Etymology we find connections between the word champion and words such as camp, campus, campaign and champagne. For more Omniglot News see: https://www.omniglot.com/news/ https://twitter.com/Omniglossia https://www.facebook.com/groups/omniglot/ https://www.facebook.com/Omniglot-100430558332117 You can also listen to this podcast on: Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Stitcher, TuneIn, Podchaser, PlayerFM or