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

New language pages:

• Ipulo, a Central Tivoid language spoken in the Southwest and Northwest regions of Cameroon.
• Isu, a Central Tivoid language spoken in the Menchum Department of the Northwest Region of Cameroon.
• Baraba Tatar (Парабачы), a variety of Siberia Tatar, a Turkic a language spoken in Siberia in Russia.
• Ralte (Râlte Pau), a Northeastern Kuki-Chin language spoken in Mizoram, Manipur and Tripura in the northeast of India.

New adapted script: Cantonese Cyrillic (Ғоңдұңва Сәйлейї Зимоў), a way to write Cantonese with the Cyrillic alphabet devised by Dijacz.

New numbers pages:

• Sisaali (Sɩsaalɩ), a Southern Gur language spoken in southern Burkina Faso.
• Edo (Ẹ̀dó), a Volta-Congo language spoken mainly in Edo State in southern Nigeria.
• Ralte (Râlte Pau), a Northeastern Kuki-Chin language spoken in Mizoram, Manipur and Tripura in India.

New Tower of Babel translation in: Edo (Ẹ̀dó)

This week on the Omniglot blog there’s a new post entitled Pages, Pagans & Peasants, in which we find out whether the words page, pagan, peasant and pheasant are related, and there’s the usual language quiz.

See if you guess what language this is:

Here’s a clue: this language is spoken in northeastern India.

The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Kuuk Thaayorre, a Pama-Nyungan language spoken in Queensland, Australia.

In this week’s Adventure in Etymology, entitled Plain Planes, we find out if the words plain, plane and plan are related.