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

There are new language pages about:

• Nukumanu, a Polynesian language spoken on Nukumanu Island in Bougainville province in eastern Papua New Guinea.
• Mono, a Central Banda language spoken in the northwest of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
• Lunda (chiLunda), a Bantu language spoken in Zambia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Angola and Namibia.
• Luba-Katanga (Kiluba), a Bantu language spoken in the southeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

New phrases pages:

• I would like … in various languages.
• Wymsorys (Wymysiöeryś), a West Germanic language spoken in Wilamowice in southern Poland.

New numbers pages:

• Nukumanu, a Polynesian language spoken on Nukumanu Island in Bougainville province in eastern Papua New Guinea.
• Luba-Katanga (Kiluba), a Bantu language spoken in the southeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
• Kinaray-a, a Visayan language spoken in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines

New Tower of Babel translation: Gilaki (گیلکی), an Iranian language spoken in northwestern Iran.

There’s a new Omniglot blog post about the expression Catty-cornered, which has nothing to do with cats, and there’s the usual Language Quiz. See if you can guess what language this is:

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

The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Kurtöp, an East Bodish language spoken in the northeast of Bhutan.

In this week’s Adventure in Etymology, we’re uncover the origins of the word Bone.

On the Celtiadur blog there’s a new post called Deceitful Errors about words for error, deceit and related things, and I made improvements to the posts entitled Expensive Fools and Young.

Improved pages: Dzongkha numbers, Ticuna language and Matoran alphabet

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