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

New alphabet page: Berati, an alternative way to write Albanian used during the 19th century.

New constructed script: Cartierian, which created by Michael Kohlman to write his constructed language of the same name.

New language pages:

• Bumthang ( བུམ་ཐང་ཁ་), an Eastern Bodic language spoken mainly in Bumthang District in northern Bhutan.
• Daka, a Northern Bantoid language spoken in Adamawa State in northeastern Nigeria.
• Dza (nnwa’ dzâ), a Bambukic language spoken in Gomba, Taraba and Adamawa states in northeastern Nigeria.

New numbers pages:

• Dza (nnwa’ dzâ), a Bambukic language spoken in Gomba, Taraba and Adamawa states in northeast Nigeria.
• Haryanvi (हरयाणवी), an Indo-Aryan language spoken mainly in Haryana State in northern India.
• Batak Angkola (ᯅᯖᯄ᯦᯲ ᯀᯰᯄ᯦ᯬᯞ), a Southern Batak language spoken in North Sumatra in Indonesia.

New phrases page: Hmar (Hmar Țawng), a Northern Mizo language spoken mainly in Assam, Meghalaya and Mizoram in northeast India.

On the Omniglot blog this week there’s a new post entitled Omphaloskepsis about words for navel gazing in various languages, and there’s the usual language quiz.

See if you guess what language this is:

Here’s a clue: this language is spoken in northern Australia.

The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Ndali (Chindali), a Bantu language spoken in Tanzania and Malawi.

In this week’s Adventure in Etymology, entitled Channelling Reeds, we find out if the words channel, canal and cane connected.