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

New language pages:

• Rabha (ৰাভা), a Sal language spoken in Assam, West Bengal and Maghalaya in the northeast of India.
• Kenyang (Kɛ́nyāŋ), a Mamfe language spoken in the Manyu and Meme departments in the Southwest Region of Cameroon.
• Araona (alaōna), a Tacanan spoken in the La Paz Department in the northwest of Bolivia.

New numbers pages:

• Rabha (ৰাভা), a Sal language spoken in the northeast of India.
• Kenyang (Kɛ́nyāŋ), a Mamfe language spoken in the Manyu and Meme departments in the Southwest Region of Cameroon.
• Bugkalot (Bogkalot), a Northern Luzon language spoken in the Cagayan Valley region in the Philippines.

New Tower of Babel translation: Rabha (ৰাভা).

This week on the Omniglot blog there’s a new post entitled Bons Mots, in which we look into the meanings and origins of the term bon mot, and there’s the usual language quiz.

See if you guess what language this is:

Here’s a clue: this language is spoken in Vietnam and Laos.

The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Dena’ina (Denaʼina Qenaga / Denaʼinaqʼ) -, a Northern Athabaskan language spoken on the Kenai Peninsula in southern Alaska in the USA.

In this week’s Adventure in Etymology, entitled Harmonious Reason, we find out whether the words harmony and reason are connected.

It’s also available on Instagram and TikTok.

There’s also a new post on the Celtiadur blog this week entitled Melting 🫠 about words for to melt, to disolve and related things in Celtic languages.

In other news, I went to see Laufey [ˈlœyːvei] in Manchester this week. She’s an Icelandic / Chinese singer song-writer based in LA who sings what she calls Jazz Pop (in English). She was supported by Alice Phoebe Lou, a South African singer song-writer based in Berlin. It was a wonderful concert, and I heard people around me speaking Cantonese, Swedish and English. So quite an international event.

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