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

New language pages:

• Thao (Thau a lalawa), a Formosan language spoken near Sun Moon Lake in central Taiwan.
• Cara, a Plateau language spoken in Plateau State in central Nigeria.
• Eleme, a Cross River language spoken in Rivers State in southeast Nigeria.
• Waimoa (Waima’a), a Timoric language spoken in the north of East Timor.

New numbers pages:

• Eleme, a Cross River language spoken in Rivers State in southeast Nigeria.
• Waimoa (Waima’a), a Timoric language spoken in the north of East Timor.
• Fur (Poor), a Nilo-Saharan language spoken mainly in southwestern Sudan, and also in Chad.

In this week’s Adventure in Etymology, entitled Scribbling Scribes, we scratch at the roots of the word scribe.

It’s also available on Instagram and TikTok.

On the Omniglot blog we find out whether the words grip, gripe and grab are related in a post entitled Grabbing Gripes, and there’s the usual language quiz. See if you guess what language this is:

Here’s a clue: this language is spoken in Siberia in the far east of Russia.

The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Cha’palaa, a Barbacoan language spoken in northern Ecuador.

On the Celtiadur blog this week there’s a new post entitled Binding Fastenings, about words for binding, fastening and related things in Celtic languages.

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