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

New language pages:

New numbers pages:

New idioms page: To lose one’s marbles – idioms meaning you have lost your mind, gone crazy and similar things in various languages.

New constructed script: Loopiform, an alternative way to write French and other languages devised by Filipe Reis.

New adapated script: Bodigari (བོ་དེ་གརི), a way to write English with the Tibetan script devised by Ian Bonnycastle.

In this week’s Adventure in Etymology, Rightly Adroit, we deftly discover the right roots of the word adroit

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On the Omniglot blog this week there’s a new post entitled Dressed to Pieces, in which we investigate the Japanese word ワンピース (wanpīsu), which means dress or one-piece bathing suit, and related words, and there’s the usual language quiz. See if you guess what language this is:

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

The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was Qabiao, a Kra language spoken in northern Vietnam and southern China.

On the Celtiadur blog this week there’s a new post entitled A Stack of Heaps about words for heap, pile, stack and related things in Celtic languages.

Improved pages: Komi language page, and made separate pages for Komi-Permyak and

I wrote a new song this week called Perdre Le Nord, which was inspired by ways to say that someone has lost their marbles (lost their mind / gone crazy) in French such as perdre le nord (‘to lose the north’).

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