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*Orbis Latinus* *is the Internet site* *of Latin and* *Neo-Latin, or* *Romance,* *languages.*	New languages are added to the Orbis Latinus: General Overview of Asturian General Overview of Castilian A new feature was added: Index of the Maps New articles were written or offered to the *Orbis Latinus: Main dialects in Rio Grande do Sul by Felipe Simões Pires. The Encyclopaedia Orbis Latini* was enlarged by new articles: aaa New materials on grammar were added: In the Brazilian Portuguese section: In the French section: Pronominal Verbs French-English False Friends In the Italian section (we are obliged to Michele Brunelli): Apostrophes (Apòstrofi) More irregular verbs were added to the French, Italian and Occitan sections. New texts were published: In the Mozarabic section: Kharjas by Yehudi Halevi (transliteration and transcription of the original texts with English translation). In the Asturian section: The poems were provided with translations in Standard Spanish by Susana Sela. See here => The weblinks section, *Web-sites in Orbi Universo...*, was also updated and enriched, Amomg the new links it is to quote: Studies on the Vlachs by Asterios Koukoudis New maps were added: Asturian Language: Area of Distribution Catalan Language: Area of Distribution Iberian peninsula: Political and Linguistic boundaries ca. 900, ca. 1150, ca. 1300 Iberian peninsula: The Mozarabic areas Judeo-Spanish: The dispersion of the Sephgardic Jews in the World	*Orbis Latinus is permanently growing:* *Every month new materials are added.*

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