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

New writing system: Kodava Lipi, or Muthanna Script, was created in 1970 by Dr. I M Muthanna to write Kodava, a Dravidian language spoken in Karnataka in the southwest of India. It was chosen as the official script for Kodava in 2022.

New language pages:

• Mbama (Lembáámá), a Bantu language spoken in the Republic of Congo and in Gabon.
• Mbere (Limbere), a Bantu language spoken in the Republic of Congo and in Gabon.
• Tooro (Orutooro), a Northeast Bantu language spoken in the Tooro Kingdom in southwestern Uganda.
• Nyoro (Orunyoro), a Northeast Bantu language spoken in the Bunyoro Kingdom in western Uganda.

New numbers pages:

• Adzera, a Western Oceanic language spoken in Morobe Province of Papua New Guinea.
• Aneityum (Anejom̃), a Southern Oceanic language spoken on Aneityum Island in Tafea Province in the south of Vanuatu.
• Are (Mukawa), a Western Oceanic language spoken in Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea.

New Tower of Babel translation: Nyoro (Orunyoro), a Northeast Bantu language spoken in the Bunyoro Kingdom in western Uganda.

On the Omniglot blog there’s a new post entitled Villainous Sharks about the Danish word skurk (villain, baddie) and related words in other languages, 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 the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia.

The mystery languag