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

New language pages:

• Fataluku, a Timor-Alor-Pantar language spoken in eastern East Timor.
• Rongga, an Sumba-Flores language spoken on Flores Island in southeastern Indonesia
• Kakwa (Kãkwã), a Puniave-Maku language spoken mainly in the southeast of Colombia.
• Wejewa, a Sumba-Flores language spoken on Sumba Island in southeastern Indonesia.

New phrases page: Guernésiais, a Gallo-Romance language spoken on the Channel Island of Guernsey.

New numbers pages:

• Dinka (Thuɔŋjäŋ), a Western Nilotic language spoken mainly in Sudan and South Sudan.
• Lugbara, an Eastern Moru-Madi language spoken in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

On the Omniglot blog there’s a new post entitled Water Parties about the Spanish word aguafiestas (party pooper, wet blanket), and there’s also the usual Language Quiz. See if you can guess what language this is:

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

The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was East Frisian (Oostfräisk), a West Germanic language spoken in the Ostfriesland region of Lower Saxony in the northwest of Germany.

In this week’s Adventure in Etymology, we look into the origins of the word Folk.

On the Celtiadur blog there’s a new post entitled Razors, and I made improvements to the posts about Fathers and Land, Parishes & Enclosures.

Improved page: Lugbara language page.

Incidentally, this is the 150th episode of the Omniglot News.

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