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

New language pages:

• Bafaw-Balong (lèfɔ́’, bàlòŋ), a Bantu language (or two closely-related languages) spoken in the Southwest and Littoral regions of Cameroon.
• Dciriku (Gciriku), a Central Sudanic language spoken mainly in southwestern Chad, and also in Nigeria.
• Kako (Mkako), a Bantu language spoken in Cameroon, the Central African Republic and the Republic of Congo.

New magical script: Alphabet of Metatron, a magical alphabet based losely on the Hebrew script.

New adapted script: Thaana for Arabic, a way to write Arabic with the Thaana (Maldivian) script devised by Aahan Kotian.

On the Omniglot blog we discover whether the word plateau is related to plate, platypus, plaza, pizza, place, flat and fold in a post called Little Dishes, 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 Micronesia.

The mystery language in last week’s language quiz was: Chaura (Sanënyö), a Nicobarese language spoken mainly on Chowra Island in the Indian union territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.