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

There are new language pages about:

• Sawila (Manata), an East Alor language spoken in the Alor Regency in East Nusa Tenggara Province in southern Indonesia.
• Karai-karai (bo Karaikarai), a West Chadic language spoken mainly in Yobe State in the northeast of Nigeria.
• Bole (bṑ pìkkà), a West Chadic language spoken mainly in Yobe and Gombe states in the northeast of Nigeria.
• Zaiwa (Zaiwa mying), a Burmish language spoken in southwestern China and northeastern Myanmar.

New numbers pages:

• Bole (bṑ pìkkà), a West Chadic language spoken mainly in Yobe and Gombe states in the northeast of Nigeria.
• Badaga (படகா / ಬಡಗ), a southern Dravidian language spoken in Tamil Nadu and Kerala in southern India.
• Tokodede, a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in East Timor.

There’s a new idiom page with versions of the saying As Snug as a Bug in a Rug in various languages.

On the Omniglot blog there’s a new post about Snudging & Snuggling and related words, and there’s the usual Language Quiz. See if you can guess what language this is:

Here’s a clue: this language is spoken in Himachal Pradesh in northern India.

The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Guambiano (Nam Trik), a Barbacoan language spoken in southwestern Colombia.

In this week’s Adventure in Etymology podcast, we uncover the origins of the word Ghost 👻, and find out where that ghostly h comes from.

On the Celtiadur blog there’s a new post about words for Order and related things, and I made improvements to the posts entitled Bad, Frosty Ice and Quick, Fast & Lively.

I also made separate pages for the Lisu language and the Fraser alphabet.

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