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

New language pages:

• Metaʼ (Mɨta’), an Eastern Grassfields language spoken in the North West Region of Cameroon.
• Romani Tatar (Romaní Tatarja), a Kipchak Turkic language spoken in northeast Bulgaria and southeast Romania.
• Kedang (tutuq nanang wela), a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken on Lembata Island in East Nusa Tenggara in eastern Indonesia.
• Waris, a Trans-New-Guinea language spoken in Sandaun Province of Papua New Guinea and Papua Province in Indonesia.

New numbers pages:

• Waris, a Trans-New-Guinea language spoken in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia.
• Oroqun, a Northern Tungusic language spoken in Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang in northern China.

New constructed script: Urisaiyo, an alternative way to write Japanese, English and other languages created by Eteluptra.

New constructed script: Stylogic, a phonemic alphabet for English and other languages created by Richard Agnew.

This week on the Omniglot blog we explore connections between the words nexus, annex(e) and connection in a post entitled A Nexus of Connections, and there’s the usual language quiz. See if you guess what language this is:

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

The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Tawellemmet (Tawəlləmmət / ⵜⵓⵍⵎⵓⵜ / تَاوَلَّمَّتْ), a Southern Tuareg language spoken in Mali, Niger and Nigeria.

On the Celtiadur blog this week there’s a new post about words for Dukes, duchesses are related things.

Here’s a little song I wrote recently called Reaching For The Sky inspired by idioms meaning to give up or quit such as ‘to throw in the towel’.