Omniglot News (25/08/24)

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

New fictional script and language: High Valyrian (Valyrio), a fictional language developed for the television series Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon, and based on the few words of High Valyrian used in George R. R. Martin’s series of fantasy novels, A Song of Ice and Fire.

New constructed script: Vjøbhaž, which was created by David Kos to write his conlang, Vneghlav, and is based on the Cyrillic script.

New language pages:

• Kulango Nkuraeng), a Gur language spoken mainly in the northwest of Ivory Coast, and also in western Ghana.
• Ibinda (Chibinda), a Bantu language spoken in the Angolan province and exclave of Cabinda.
• Vwanji (Ekivwanji), a Bantu language spoken mainly in the Njombe Region in the southwest of Tanzania.
• Safwa (Kisafwa), a Bantu language spoken in the Mbeya region in the southwest of Tanzania.
• Hehe (Kihehe), a Northeast Bantu language spoken in the Iringa region in southern Tanzania.

New numbers pages:

• Ibinda (Chibinda), a Bantu language spoken in the Angolan province and exclave of Cabinda.
• High Valyrian (Valyrio), a fictional language developed for the television series Game of Thrones.
• Latino Sine Flexione, an International Auxiliary Language based on Latin without the inflections.

On the Omniglot blog there’s a new post entitled Foolish Consistency about foolishly consistent hobgoblins, insanity and misquotation. There’s also the usual Language Quiz. See if you can guess what language this is:

http://www.omniglot.com/soundfiles/blog/quiz250824.mp3

Here’s a clue: this language is spoken in Somalia.

The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Tundra Yukaghir (Вадул аруу), a Yukaghir language spoken in the Far East region of the Russian Federation, particularly in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

In this week’s Adventure in Etymology, we find out whether the word Grass is connected to words like green, graze, grow and herb.

On the Celtiadur blog there’s a new post entitled Grinding Mills, which is about words for grind, mill and related things in Celtic languages.

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