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+# What's new in babel 3.89
+
+## Modifiers
+
+About 10 years ago, a special syntax was devised to pass options to
+languages, with a dot-separated list in the following way.
+```tex
+spanish.notilde.lcroman
+```
+It was short and clean, but it has a severe disadvantage, namely, it’s
+problematic with languages set as class options. Therefore, this
+version introduces a new way to set the modifiers for a language, as
+the following example shows:
+```tex
+\documentclass[spanish]{report}
+\usepackage[modifiers.spanish = notilde.lcroman]{babel}
+```
+That is, start a package options with |modifiers.| followed by the
+language, and then set the modifier list. Note the language is not
+selected.
+
+## Deprecations
+
+`\aliasshorthands` 
+
+
+## Cleaning up some language names
+
+`northernsami` is now the preferred name for `samin`, which is
+deprecated (it was clearly shortened to fit in the 8-character limit,
+and furthermore the Samin are a Javanese people). `scottishgaelic` is
+the preferred name for `scottish`; the latter still makes sense (it’s
+parallel to `irish`), and therefore, although discouraged, is not
+deprecated.
+
+See also 
+