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

New language pages:

• Leonese (Llionés), a Ibero-Romance language spoken mainly in the northwest of Spain.
• Angaataha (Angaatɨha), a Trans-New Guinea language spoken in Morobe Province in Papua New Guinea.
• Northwest Gbaya (Làì / Kàrà), an Atlantic-Congo language spoken in Cameroon and the Central African Republic.

New numbers page:

• Angaataha (Angaatɨha), a Trans-New Guinea language spoken in Morobe Province in Papua New Guinea.
• Nizaa (Nízɑɑ̀), a Mambiloid language spoken in the Adamawa Region in northern Cameroon.

New adapted script: Turkish Shavian (·𐑖𐑨𐑝𐑰 𐑑𐑳𐑮𐑒𐑗𐑧 / Şavi Türkçe), a way to write Turkish with the Shavian alphabet devised by Ethan Ikediashi.

New Tower of Babel translation: Abaza (абаза бызшва), a North West Caucasian language spoken in the Republics of Karachay-Cherkessia and Adygea in the southwest of Russia.

If someone is described as having come-hither eyes, it means their eyes are seducitve or alluring. If you tell a horse to come hither though, what would you expect it to do? Find out in this blog post Hither & Thither, 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 Vanuatu.

The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Umbundu (Úmbúndú), a Bantu language spoken in western Angola.

On the Celtiadur blog this week there’s a new post about words for I, me and related pronouns entitled Me, Myself & I.

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