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

New adapted script: Asirilik (Асирилик), a way to write Tamazight with the Cyrillic alphabet devised by Xavier Merica

New adapted script: Chukchi Latin Alphabet (Lyghorawetlhen Latinlhen Alfavit) – a way to write Chukchi with the Latin alphabet created by Dijacz.

New language pages:

• Koshin (Kɔshin), a Western Beboid language spoken in the Northwest Region of Cameroon.
• Kung (Kuŋ), a Central Ring Grassfields language spoken in the Northwest Region of Cameroon.
• Mambila, a Northern Bantoid language spoken in southeastern Nigeria and northwestern Cameroon.
• Anāl, a Northwestern Kuki-Chin language spoken in India and Myanmar.

New numbers pages:

• Epele (Ẹkpeye), an Igboid language spoken in Rivers and Bayelsa states in southern Nigeria.
• Ogba (Ọgbà), an Igboid language spoken mainly in Rivers State in southern Nigeria.
• Kharia (कोरकू), a Munda language spoken mainly in the Indian states of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Odisha.

New family words page: Lingua Franca Nova

This week on the Omniglot blog there’s a new post entitled Mouchard, in which we investigate the French word mouchard (grass, snitch, informant), and related things, and there’s the usual language quiz. See if you guess what language this is:

Here’s a clue: this language is spoken in southern China.

The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Daasanach (Af Daasanach), a Lowland East Cushitic language spoken in Ethiopia, Kenya and South Sudan.

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