What's new on Omniglot?

This page lists significant additions and changes to Omniglot with the most recent at the top. The small changes I make more or less every day are too numerous to include here.

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29th April

New writing system: Kaithi

New con-script: Zærān'jæ

New languages: Awadhi and Fox (Meskwaki)

22nd April

New languages: Acholi and Miskito

New con-script: Klaekson-Zaen

New kinship page: Germanic languages

New Tower of Babel translations in: Awadhi, Okinawan and Tibetan

15th April

New in writing: Luwian, Polish Cyrillic and Zhongyinzi (종인쯔)

8th April

New language: Fula(ni)

New writing page: Welsh Braille

New phrases page: Tigrinya

New Tower of Babel translations: Akan (Twi/Fante), Chichewa, Efik, Hmar and Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Northern Sotho, Ossetian Sinhala, Sranan

New article: 5 Reasons Why You Should Teach English Abroad

1st April

New con-script: Vaelak

New section: Video lessons

New article: Ancient Germanic Languages Documented – A Preliminary Sketch

Improved page: Okinawan

25th March

New page: Kinship terms in Chinese languages
(Cantonese, Hakka, Mandarin and Taiwanese)

New recordings: English, Indonesian and Malay alphabets, and Tower of Babel in Malay

Improved page: Hmong

Improved video: Luftkissenfahrzeuge (with added subtitles and speech bubbles)

18th March

New con-scripts: Dotsies and Nihon no Hangul

New multilingual page: Kinship terms in Romance languages

New article: Top 5 Twitter Accounts for Language-Related Information

New video: La bufonería

Improved pages: Taiwanese and Taiwanese phrases

11th March

New languages: Iu Mien, Krymchak and Ladin

New translation: About me text in Bengali

4th March

New language: Hinukh

New page: Kinship terms in Celtic languages

New Tower of Babel translations: Classical Chinese, Eastern Min and Fiji Hindi

New song: Lisa Lân

26th February

New language: Chipewyan

New articles
- How foreign teenagers learn Mandarin in Taiwan the natural way!
- Malaysian versus Indonesian - divided by a common tongue?
- The Advantages and Disadvantages of Machine Translation

19th February

New language: Swiss German

New numbers page in: Swiss German

New phrases page in: Swiss German

New video: The elephant in the room

New recordings: Croatian phrases

12th Feburary

New languages: Budukh and Khwarshi

New recordings: Galician phrases

New article: How to improve your French with French movies

5th February

New language: Salar

New section in the gallery: Word Art

New articles: Free Online Resources and Tools to Learn English, Language Learning Methods and Shabu Shabu

29th January

New language: Mauritian Creole

New article: How Can I Improve My English? - A breakthrough answer for Chinese college or university English-language nuts

New numbers pages: Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu

22nd January

New con-script: Knot Alphabet

New phrases page: Wolof

New recordings: Latvian

15th January

New language: Inor

New phrases pages: Cherokee and Romansh

New numbers page: Romansh

Improved phrases page: Pashto

New translation: About me in Swedish

8th January

New writing system: Mwangwego

New language: Hunzib

Improved pages: Corsican, Nenets, Venetian, Walloon

1st January

New con-scripts: Efkolia and Ryszalean

New colours page: Japanese

New article: Tips To Complement Your English Lessons

Improved page: Quechua phrases

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