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

New language pages:

• Shi (Mashi), a Northeast Bantu language spoken in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• Ikwo, an Igboid language spoken in Ebonyi and Cross River states in southern Nigeria.
• Ngaing, a Finisterre language spoken in the south of Madang Province of Papua New Guinea.

New numbers page:

• Ngaing, a Finisterre language spoken in the south of Madang Province of Papua New Guinea.

New Tower of Babel translations pages:

• Shi (Mashi), a Northeast Bantu language spoken in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• Nga La (Matu), a Southern Kuki-Chin language spoken in western Myanmar.
• Gofa (Goofatho / የጎፋ-ቋንቋ), a North Omotic language spoken in southwest of Ethiopia.
• Safen (Saafi-Saafi), a Senegambian language spoken in western Senegal.
• Koyraboro Senni, a Songhay language spoken in southern Mali.
• Thaiphum, a Southern Kuki-Chin language spoken in Chin State in western Myanmar.

New adapted script: Sitelen kana (写太 / してれん かな / シテレン カナ), a way to write Toki Pona with Japanese scripts.

In this week’s Adventure in Etymology, entitled Awkwardly Odd, we discover the odd roots of the word awkward.

It’s also available on Instagram and TikTok.

On the Omniglot blog we fribble about some fribblish words in a post entitled Fribblish Fribblers, and there’s the usual language quiz. See if you guess what language this is:

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

The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Malaweg, a Northern Luzon language spoken in Luzon in the Philippines.

On the Celtiadur blog this week there’s a new post entitled Awkwardly Clumsy, about words for clumsy, awkward and related things in Celtic languages.

Incidentally, this is episode 250 of the Omniglot news.

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