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

New language pages:

• Rongmei (Ruanglat / ꯔꯣꯡꯃꯩ), a Kuki-Chin-Naga language spoken in northeastern India.
• Kupsabiny (Kupsapiiny), a Kalenjin language spoken in the Eastern Region of Uganda.
• Lango (Laŋgo), an Eastern Nilotic language spoken in the Eastern Equatoria State of South Sudan.
• Nyangatom (Inyangatom), an Eastern Nilotic language spoken along the Omo River in southwestern Ethiopia.

New numbers pages:

• Yemba (Yɛmba), a West Bamileke language spoken in the Southwest and West regions of Cameroon.
• Xârâcùù, a Southern New Caledonian language spoken in the North Province of New Caledonia.

On the Omniglot blog, there’s a new post entitled Paved Floors, in which we investigate the Italian word pavimento (floor) and related words in other languages, 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 Tunisia.

The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Ladin, a Gallo-Romance language spoken in northern Italy. The recording is specifically in Col Ladin (Ladin da Col), a variety of Ladin spoken in Livinallongo del Col di Lana in the Province of Belluno in the region of Veneto in Italy.

In this week’s episode of the Celtic Pathways podcast, entitled Tan Oaks, we look into the possible Celtic roots of words such as tan, tannery and Tannenbaum. It’s also available on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok

On the Celtiadur blog there’s a new post entitled Original Pedigree about words for origin, basisnobility, lineage and related things in Celtic languages, and I made improvements to the post about Oak (trees).

I also made improvements to the Yemba language page.

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