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

New language pages:

• Firan (Fɨràn), a West-Central Plateau language spoken in Plateau State in central Nigeria.
• Buli, a Gur language spoken in the Upper East Region in northern Ghana.
• Mpade (Mpadɨ), a Chadic language spoken in northern Cameroon and southwest Chad.

New numbers page:

• Baoulé, a Kwa language spoken in Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast).
• Buli, a Gur language spoken in the Upper East Region in northern Ghana.
• Songe (Kisonge), a Bantu language spoken in the south of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

New phrases page: Buli, a Gur language spoken in the Upper East Region in northern Ghana.

New Tower of Babel translations:

• Baoulé, a Kwa language spoken in Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast).
• Bilaspuri, a Western Pahari language spoken in Himachal Pradesh and Punjab in northern India.
• Ambai, a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken mainly on the Ambai Islands in Papua province in Indonesia.
• Anuak, a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken mainly on the Ambai Islands in Papua province in Indonesia.
• Apali, a Trans-New Guinea language spoken in Madang Province in Papua New Guinea.
• Buli, a Gur language spoken in the Upper East Region in northern Ghana.
• Gourmanchéma (gùlmàncéma), a Gur language spoken in Burkina Faso, Togo, Niger and Benin.
• Vidunda (Chividunda), a Bantu language spoken in southern Tanzania.
• Medumba (Mə̀dʉ̂mbɑ̀), a Bamileke language spoken in the West Region in southwestern Cameroon.

In this week’s Adventure in Etymology, entitled Feeble Foibles, we discover what links the words feeble and foible with bleating and bells.

It’s also available on Instagram and TikTok.

On the Omniglot blog this week we investigate various words for Rice in Swahili, Chinese and Japanese, and there’s the usual language quiz. See if you guess what language this is:

Here’s a clue: this language is spoken in Dagestan in Russia.

The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Lenakel (Netvaar), a Southern Oceanic language spoken on Tanna Island in southern Vanuatu.

On the Celtiadur blog this week there’s a new post about words for we, us and related pronouns entitled We Ourselves.

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