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

New language pages:

• Koyrasboro Senni (كࣷيْرَبࣷرࣷ سٜنِّ), a Southern Songhay language spoken in southern Mali.
• Tuwali, a Philippine language spoken the Province of Ifugao in northern Luzon in the Philippines.
• Nga La (Matu), a Southern Kuki-Chin language spoken western Myanmar and northeastern India.

New numbers page:

• Tuwali, a Philippine language spoken the Province of Ifugao northern Luzon in the Philippines.
• Nga La, a Southern Kuki-Chin language spoken western Myanmar and northeastern India.

New phrases page: Nga La, a Southern Kuki-Chin language spoken western Myanmar and northeastern India.

New Tower of Babel translations pages:

• Udi (удин муз / udin muz), a Northeast Caucasian language spoken in Azerbaijan, Russia, Georgia and Armenia.
• Wandala, a Chadic language spoken in northern Cameroon and northwestern Nigeria.
• Talinga, a Bantu language spoken in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• Tamahaq, a Northern Berber language spoken in Algeria, Libya and Niger.
• Tandroy, a Southern Kuki-Chin language spoken in Chin State in western Myanmar.
• Tsakhur, a northeast Caucasian language spoken in Azerbaijan and Russia
• Ut Main, a Northwest Kainji language spoken in northern Nigeria.

New constructed script: Simgeul, a way to write Korean with a “simplified” version of the Korean Hangeul script created by Ajn.

In this week’s Adventure in Etymology, we point out the origins of the word Index.

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On the Omniglot blog we discover what griffons have to do with messy writing in a post entitled Griffonage, and there’s the usual language quiz. See if you guess what language this is:

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

The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Chakhar (ᠴᠠᠬᠠᠷ), a variety of Mongolian spoken in the Inner Mongolia Region in northern China.

On the Celtiadur blog this week there’s a new post entitled Confluent Ravines about words for ravine, confluence and related things in Celtic languages.

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