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Omniglot
Simon Ager lives in Bangor in northwest Wales and earns his living from Omniglot, the online encyclopedia of writing systems and languages he set up in 1998. He also presents Radio Omniglot, a podcast he started in 2018, including Adventures in Etymology and Celtic Pathways.
- Languages
- Writing systems
- Celtic languages
- Etymology
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Omniglot
Omniglot is an encyclopedia of writing systems and languages. You can use it to learn about languages, to learn alphabets and other writing systems, and to learn phrases, numbers and other things in many languages. There is also advice on how to learn languages.
Simon set the site up in 1998 and has been maintaining and developing it since then. He coined the name Omniglot that year, originally for a web design and translation business he was planning to establish, and later used it for the encyclopedia. Many other people have made contributions of new material, corrections and suggestions.
Celtic languages on Omniglot
These are the parts of Omniglot that relate to Celtic languages. On those pages Simon notes that he is not a native speaker of any of these languages, but has been studying them, on and off, for quite a few years. He speaks Welsh and Irish more or less fluently, can get by in Scottish Gaelic and Manx, and has a basic knowledge of Cornish and Breton. By putting the information together, his aim is to improve his knowledge of these languages and to share that knowledge with others.
On Omniglot
Celtic languages
A collection of information, vocabulary, grammar and other details of the Celtic languages on Omniglot and elsewhere, including Breton, Cornish, Welsh, Irish, Manx, Scottish Gaelic, and older Celtic languages.
On Omniglot
Celtic cognates
Words that are related (cognate) in all or some of the six modern Celtic languages. Those languages fall into two branches: Goidelic (Irish, Manx and Scottish Gaelic) and Brythonic (Welsh, Cornish and Breton).
Blog
Celtiadur
Explores connections between Celtic languages, including the modern Celtic languages, older versions of those languages, and their reconstructed ancestors. It also includes the origins of the words (etymology), and related words in other languages.
Podcast
Celtic Pathways
A Radio Omniglot series, started in July 2022, that explores connections between Celtic languages, and looks for words with Celtic roots in other languages, such as English, French, Spanish, Galician and Portuguese.
On ReallyByte: beginner sites for Manx, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and Cornish, and the languages.im hub.
Radio Omniglot and Adventures in Etymology
Radio Omniglot is a podcast Simon started in 2018 to share information about language, linguistics, interesting words and phrases, and his own and other people’s experiences of learning and using languages.
It currently features:
- Adventures in Etymology, which looks into the origins of words, and finds other words that are connected to them. It started in March 2021 as an offshoot of the Omniglot blog — he decided to record some posts, and it grew from there.
- Celtic Pathways, which explores connections between Celtic languages, and looks for words with Celtic roots in other languages.
- Omniglot News, a weekly look at the latest developments from the world of Omniglot.
The Omniglot YouTube channel, at youtube.com/@omniglot, has been there since 2007. It contains video versions of Adventures in Etymology, Celtic Pathways and other Radio Omniglot podcasts, as well as videos of songs and tunes Simon has written, and of linguistic and musical events he has taken part in.
Visit Omniglot on YouTube Adventures in Etymology on Radio Omniglot
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