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

New language pages:

• Mundabli-Mufu (Ngɔ Njan), a Western Beboid language spoken in the North West Region of Cameroon.
• Wamey (Wameỹ / Koñagi), a Senegambian language spoken in Senegal and Guinea.
• Faiwol, a Mountain Ok language spoken in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia.

New numbers pages:

• Wamey, a Senegambian language spoken in Senegal and Guinea.
• Fataluku, a Trans-New Guinea language spoken on the island of Timor in East Timor and Indonesia.

New constructed script: Chivabwe, an alternative way to write Shona and other languages of Africa created by Duncan Junior Kutya.

In this week’s Adventure in Etymology, Entangled Perplexity, we untangle the perplexing roots of the word perplexity.

It’s also available on Instagram and TikTok.

This week on the Omniglot blog there’s a new post entitled Losing Marbles about ways to say that someone has lost their marbles (gone crazy) in English and French, and there’s the usual language quiz. See if you guess what language this is:

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

The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Itzaʼ, a Yucatec Mayan language spoken in the Petén Department in northern Guatemala.

On the Celtiadur blog this week there’s a new post entitled Brittle Fragility about words for brittle, fragile and related things in Celtic languages.

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