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

New alphabet; Vellara alphabet, an alternative alphabet for Albanian created during the 19th century.

New alphabet: Veso Bey alphabet, an alphabet that was used to write Albanian in southern Albania in the 19th century.

New language pages:

• Bekwarra (Ebekwara), a Bendi language spoken in Cross River State in southeastern Nigeria.
• Kalamang, a Trans-New Guinea language spoken on Karas Island in West Papua in Indonesia.
• Woisika (Kamang), a West Bomberai language spoken on Alor Island in East Nusa Tenggara Province in southern Indonesia.
• Klon, a West Bomberai language spoken on Alor Island in East Nusa Tenggara Province in southern Indonesia.

New numbers pages:

• Bekwarra (Ebekwara), a Bendi language spoken in Cross River State in southeastern Nigeria.
• Kalamang, a Trans-New Guinea language spoken on Karas Island in West Papua in Indonesia.
• Klon, a West Bomberai language spoken on Alor Island in East Nusa Tenggara Province in southern Indonesia.

New Tower of Babel translation: Bekwarra (Ebekwara), a Bendi language spoken in Cross River State in southeastern Nigeria.

On the Omniglot blog this week there’s a new post entitled Little Friends about mistranslation and words for child in Chinese and French, and there’s the usual language quiz.

See if you guess what language this is:

Here’s a clue: this language is spoken in Tanzania and Malawi.

The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Negidal (Неғида хэсэнин), a Northern Tungusic language spoken in Khabarovskij Kraj in the Russian Far East.

In this week’s Adventure in Etymology, entitled Doomed Pride, we find out what