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

New language pages:

• Ngambay, a Central Sudanic language spoken in Chad, Cameroon and Nigeria.
• Ineseño (Sʰamala), a Chumashan language that was spoken in southern California in the USA and that is being revived.
• Tungag (Lavongai), a Western Oceanic language spoken in New Ireland Province in Papua New Guinea.

New numbers page: Tungag (Lavongai), a Western Oceanic language spoken in New Ireland Province in Papua New Guinea.

New phrases page: Valencian (valencià), a Western Catalan language spoken mainly in Valencia in eastern Spain.

In this week’s Adventure in Etymology, we discover the origins of the word Influence. This is episode 200 of Adventures in Etymology, by the way.

It’s also available on Instagram and TikTok.

On the Omniglot blog we find out whether near is nearer than nigh in a post entitled Nearly Nigh, and there’s the usual language quiz. See if you guess what language this is:

Here’s a clue: this language is spoken in southern California in the USA.

The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Djabugay, a Pama-Nyungan spoken in Far North Queensland in the northeast of Australia.

On the Celtiadur blog this week there’s a new post entitled Shining Bright about words for clear, bright, shining and related things in Celtic languages.

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