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<!DOCTYPE HTML> <html> <head> <title>About the author of Omniglot</title> <meta name="description" content="Some information about the person behind Omniglot, Simon Ager" />  <script>(function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start': new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0], j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src= 'https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f); })(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-WB7PSHBG');</script>  <meta charset="UTF-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> <meta property="og:image" content="https://www.omniglot.com/images/logos/omniglot_thumbnail.jpg" /> <meta property="og:type" content="https://www.facebook.com/pg/Omniglot-100430558332117/posts/" /> <link href="/styles/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> <script src="https://the.gatekeeperconsent.com/cmp.min.js" data-cfasync="false"></script> <script async src="//www.ezojs.com/ezoic/sa.min.js"></script> <script> window.ezstandalone = window.ezstandalone || {}; ezstandalone.cmd = ezstandalone.cmd || []; </script><script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.2/jquery.min.js"></script> <script> // DOM ready $(function() { // Create the dropdown base $("<select />").appendTo("nav"); // Create default option "Choose a language" $("<option />", { "selected": "selected", "value" : "", "text" : "Choose a language" }).appendTo("nav select"); // Populate dropdown with menu items $("nav a").each(function() { var el = $(this); $("<option />", { "value" : el.attr("href"), "text" : el.text() }).appendTo("nav select"); }); // To make dropdown actually work // To make more unobtrusive: http://css-tricks.com/4064-unobtrusive-page-changer/ $("nav select").change(function() { window.location = $(this).find("option:selected").val(); }); }); </script> </head> <body> <a id="top"></a> <div id="header">  <noscript><iframe src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-WB7PSHBG" height="0" width="0" style="display:none;visibility:hidden"></iframe></noscript>  <p><a href="/index.htm"><img src="/images/logos/header_omniglot.png" width="600" height="70" alt="Omniglot - the online encyclopedia of writing systems & languages" /></a></p> <ul> <li><a href="/index.htm">Home</a></li> <li><a href="/writing/index.htm">Alphabets</a></li> <li><a href="/conscripts/index.htm">Constructed scripts</a></li> <li><a href="/writing/languages.htm">Languages</a></li> <li><a href="/language/phrases/phraseindex.htm">Phrases</a></li> <li><a href="/language/numbers/index.htm">Numbers</a></li> <li><a href="/language/ml.htm">Multilingual Pages</a></li> <li><a href="/search.htm">Search</a></li> <li><a href="/news/index.htm">News</a></li> <li><a href="/about.htm">About</a></li> <li><a href="/contact.htm">Contact</a></li> </ul></div> <div id="bodybox"> <span style="text-align:center;"><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-162"></div> <script> ezstandalone.cmd.push(function() { ezstandalone.showAds(162); }); </script></span><div id="body"> <h1>About the author</h1> <p><img src="/images/photos/sager26012023.jpg" width="199" height="250" style="float:right; margin: 0 0 0 10px;" alt="A photo of Simon Ager, author of Omniglot, taken on 26th January 2023" /> </p><p>My name is Simon Ager, I live in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangor,_Gwynedd">Bangor</a> in northwest Wales and earn my living from this website. I grew up in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverdale,_Lancashire">Lancashire</a> in the northwest of England, and have also lived in France, Taiwan and Japan. </p> <p>I've always been interested in languages. I studied French and German at school, and Chinese and Japanese at university, and have taught myself some others. </p> <p><a href="language/learning/index.htm">More details of my langauge learning adventures</a>. </p> <p>When not learning languages, I like to <a href="http://www.librarything.com/profile/omniglot">read</a>, <a href="songs/sager/index.htm">sing</a>, <a href="songs/sager/mysongs.htm">write songs</a> and <a href="music/index.htm">tunes</a>, play <a href="music/muscialadventures.htm">musical instruments</a> and <a href="juggling/index.htm">juggle</a>. </p> <p>By the way, in case you're wondering, my surname, <strong>Ager</strong>, is pronounced /'eɪgə/ - a as in age, ger as in lager. </p> <p><a href="/about.htm">About this site</a> | <a href="/about2.htm">Omniglot - a potted history</a> | <a href="/aboutme.htm">About me</a> | <a href="/language/learning/index.htm">My language learning adventures</a> | <a href="/music/muscialadventures.htm">My musical adventures</a> | <a href="/songs/sager/index.htm">My singing adventures</a> | <a href="/songs/sager/mysongs.htm">Song writing</a> | <a href="/music/tunesmithing.htm">Tunesmithing</a> | <a href="/juggling/index.htm">My juggling adventures</a></p> <p><img src="images/banners/aboutme.gif" width="600" height="293" alt="Wordle picture of the English version of this text" /> </p> <a id="other"></a> <hr /> <h2>About me in other languages</h2> <p>These languages are arranged in alphabetic order according to their native names. </p> <p><a href="/about/assamese.htm" title="Assamese">অসমীয়া</a>, <a href="/about/indonesian.htm" title="Indonesian">Bahasa Indonesia</a>, <a href="/about/malay.htm" title="Malaysian">Bahasa Melayu</a>, <a href="/about/bengali.htm" title="Bengali">বাংলা</a>, <a href="/about/breton.htm" title="Breton">Brezhoneg</a>, <a href="/about/catalan.htm" title="Catalan">català</a>, <a href="/about/czech.htm" title="Czech">čeština</a>, <a href="/about/chabacano.htm">Chabacano</a>, <a href="/about/welsh.htm" title="Welsh">Cymraeg</a>, <a href="/about/danish.htm" title="Danish">dansk</a>, <a href="/about/german.htm" title="German">Deutsch</a>, <a href="/about/estonian.htm" title="Estonian">eesti</a>, <a href="/aboutme.htm">English</a>, <a href="/about/oldenglish.htm" title="Old English / Anglo-Saxon">Englisc</a>, <a href="/about/arabic.htm" title="Arabic">العربية</a>, <a href="/about/greek.htm" title="Greek">ελληνικά</a>, <a href="/about/spanish.htm" title="Spanish">español</a>, <a href="/about/esperanto.htm">Esperanto</a>, <a href="/about/persian.htm" title="Persian">فارسى</a>, <a href="/about/french.htm" title="French">français</a>, <a href="/about/irish.htm" title="Irish (Gaelic)">Gaeilge</a>, <a href="/about/manx.htm" title="Manx (Gaelic)">Gaelg</a>, <a href="/about/gaelic.htm" title="Scottish Gaelic">Gàidhlig</a>, <a href="/about/gothic.htm" title="Gothic">Gutiska (𐌲𐌿𐍄𐌹𐍃𐌺𐌰)</a>, <a href="/about/korean.htm" title="Korean">한국어</a>, <a href="/about/hiligaynon.htm">Hiligaynon</a>, <a href="/about/hindi.htm">Hindi</a>, <a href="/about/icelandic.htm" title="Icelandic">Íslenska</a>, <a href="/about/italian.htm" title="Italian">italiano</a>, <a href="/about/hebrew.htm" title="Hebrew">עברית</a>, <a href="/about/kadazan.htm">Kadazan</a>, <a href="/about/kalalagawya.htm">Kala Lagaw Ya</a>, <a href="/about/cornish.htm" title="Cornish">Kernewek</a>, <a href="/about/latin.htm" title="Latin">Lingua Latina</a>, <a href="/about/hungarian.htm" title="Hungarian">magyar</a>, <a href="/about/marathi.htm" title="Marathi">मराठी</a>, <a href="/about/mongolian.htm" title="Mongolian">монгол</a>, <a href="/about/lowsaxon.htm" title="Low Saxon">Neddersassisch</a>, <a href="/about/dutch.htm" title="Dutch">Nederlands</a>, <a href="/about/japanese.htm" title="Japanese">日本語</a>, <a href="/about/norwegian.htm" title="Norwegian">norsk</a>, <a href="/about/occitan.htm" title="Occitan">occitan</a>, <a href="/about/thai.htm" title="Thai">ภาษาไทย</a>, <a href="/about/polish.htm" title="Polish">polski</a>, <a href="/about/portuguese.htm" title="Portuguese">português</a>, <a href="/about/romanian.htm" title="Romanian">român</a>, <a href="/about/russian.htm" title="Russian">Русский</a>, <a href="/about/albanian.htm" title="Albanian">Shqip</a>, <a href="/about/slovak.htm" title="Slovak">slovenčina</a>, <a href="/about/finnish.htm" title="Finnish">suomi</a>, <a href="/about/swedish.htm" title="Swedish">Svenska</a>, <a href="/about/tagalog.htm">Tagalog</a>, <a href="/about/tuareg.htm" title="Tuareg">Tamasheq</a>, <a href="/about/tamil.htm" title="Tamil">தமிழ்</a>, <a href="/about/turkish.htm" title="Turkish">Türkçe</a>, <a href="/about/yiddish.htm" title="Yiddish">ײִדיש</a>, <a href="/about/chinese.htm" title="Chinese">中文</a> </p><p><strong>Note</strong>: not all the translations of this text are exactly the same as the English version. 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