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

New language pages:

• Tupuri (Tpuri), a Northern Mbum language spoken in Chad and Cameroon.
• Akum, a Plateau Benue-Congo language spoken in Cameroon and Nigeria.
• Alumu (Alumu Təsu), a Plateau Benue-Congo language spoken in Nigeria.
• Karao, a Northern Luzon language spoken in the north of Luzon in the Philippines.

New numbers pages:

• Tupuri (Tpuri), a Bak language spoke in Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, and the Gambia.
• Karao, a Northern Luzon language spoken in northern Luzon in the Philippines.

There are also recordings of all the Georgian phrases now thanks to Lasse of EasyGeorgian.

New constructed script: Valagata, a script invented by Jakub Cieślak to write a constructed language by the same name.

New constructed script: Sotwor, an alphabet created by Amaiur Velaz Rodriguez to write English and for Japanese.

New adapted script: Fully Phonetic Devanagari, a modified version of the Devanagari script from India created by Yash Batwal as a universal script.

There are two new Adventures in Etymology this week as I didn’t get round to making one last week: Befuddled Confusion, in which we untangle the origins of the word confusion.

It’s also available on Instagram and TikTok.

And Delays Expected, in which we investigate the tardy roots of the word delay.

It’s also available on Instagram and TikTok.

On the Omniglot blog everything is in a state of confusion as we investigate the phrase At Sixes and Sevens and other number-related phrases in English, Chinese and Japanese, and there’s the usual language quiz. See if you guess what language this is:

Here’s a clue: this language is spoken in Guinea-Bissau and Senegal.

The mystery language in the last language quiz was Yaghnobi (Яғнобӣ зивок), an Eastern Iranian language spoken in the Yaghnob Valley in Tajikistan.

On the Celtiadur blog this week there’s a new post entitled Dry Barrenness, about words for dry, barren, sterile and related things in Celtic languages.

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