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

New writing system: Lai Tay, which was used to write Tai Yo, a Southwestern Tai langauge spoken in Vietnam, Laos and Thailand.

New language pages:

• Central Kilimanjaro, a Northeast Bantu language spoken mainly in Kilimanjaro Region in the northeast of Tanzania.
• Tetela (Ɔtɛtɛla) a Bantu language spoken in the south of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• Lengola (Ilengóla), a Bantu language spoken in Tshopo Province in the north of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

New phrases page: Lengola.

New numbers pages:

• Yazghulami (Йузда̄ми зәвәг), an Eastern Iranian language spoken mainly in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region in eastern Tajikistan.
• Jur Modo, a Central Sudanic spoken in the south west of South Sudan.
• Aringa (Ãrị̃ngã), a Central Sudanic spoken in the West Nile region of Uganda.
• Megleno-Romanian (vlășéște), an Eastern Romance language spoken in mainly in Greece and North Macedonia.

On the Omniglot blog we investigate some flabbergasting and rather ghastly words, and discover how the word ghost acquired its h, in a post called Gasting Flabbers, 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 mainly in the northeast of India, and also in Bangladesh and Nepal.

The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was: Sekani (Tse’khene), a Northern Athabaskan language spoken in British Columbia in Canada.

In this week’s Adventure in Etymology, we unravel the roots of the word Minon.

It’s also available on Instagram and TikTok.

On the Celtiadur blog there’s a new post entitled Memorable Memories about words for memory, to remember and other things that I’ve forgotten.

Improved page: Kapampangan and Pali language pages.

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