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

New language pages:

• Wooi, an Eastern Malayo-Polynesian language spoken on Yapen Island in Papua Province in eastern Indonesia.
• Adi, an Eastern Tani language spoken in Arunachal Pradesh in northeastern India.
• Bebe (Naami), an Eastern Beboid language spoken in the North West Region of Cameroon.
• Louisiana Creole (kouri-vini), a French-basd creole language spoken mainly in southern Louisiana in the USA.

New numbers pages:

• Nlakaʼpamux (Thompson), an Interior Salishan language spoken in Canada and in the USA.
• Louisiana Creole (kouri-vini), a French-basd creole language spoken mainly in southern Louisiana in the USA.
• Baure, a Southern Arawakan language spoken in northeastern Bolivia.
• Saraiki (سرائيكى), a Lahnda language spoken in Pakistan and northern India.

New phrases pages:

• Nlakaʼpamux, an Interior Salishan language spoken in Canada and in the USA.
• Bonggi, a North Bornean language spoken mainly on Banggi Island in Sabah in East Malaysia.

New family words page: Bonggi.

On the Omniglot blog this week there’s a new post entitled Ideophones about ideophonic words in Bebe (Naami), Japanese, Korea, Tamil and Zulu, and there’s a new language quiz. Can you guess what language this is?

Here’s a clue: this language is spoken in the Russian Far East region.

The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Ajië (Waawilûû), a New Caledonian language spoken on the east coast of New Caledonia.

In this week’s Adventure in Etymology, Strong Comfort, we get comfortable and investigate the word comfort and related things.