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There are 12 months and an additional leap year month in the [[Ahom people|Ahom]] [[Sexagenary cycle|sexagenary]] calendar known as Lak-ni.<ref>{{harvcolsfnp|Phukan Baruah|1964|p=193}}</ref><ref>{{harvcolsfnp|Kapoor|2021|p=668}}</ref> The first month is Duin Shing.<ref>{{harvcolsfnp|Phukan Baruah|1964|p=193}}</ref>

The [[Baháʼí calendar]] is the calendar used by the [[Baháʼí Faith]]. It is a solar calendar with regular years of 365 days, and [[leap year]]s of 366 days. Years are composed of 19 months of 19 days each (361 days), plus an extra period of "[[Ayyám-i-Há|Intercalary Days]]" (4 in regular and 5 in leap years).<ref name="bne">{{Cite book sfnp|last=Esslemont, J. E. |url=http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/je/BNE/ |title=Bahá'u'lláh and the New Era |publisher=Baháʼí Publishing Trust |year=1980 |isbn=0-87743-160-4 |edition=5th |location=Wilmette, Illinois, USA |pages=178–179178{{ndash}}179}}</ref> The months are named after the attributes of God. Days of the year begin and end at sundown.<ref name{{sfnp|Esslemont|1980|pages="bne" />178{{ndash}}179}}

The Sinhalese calendar is the [[Buddhist calendar]] in [[Sri Lanka]] with [[Sinhala language|Sinhala]] names. Each full moon [[Poya]] day marks the start of a Buddhist lunar month.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sri Lanka – Festival Calendar |url=http://premlanka.com/festivals.html |access-date=8 August 2018 |website=Premlanka Hotel |publisher=Curlew Communications Ltd}}</ref> The first month is Bak.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Significance of Poya |url=http://www.lankalibrary.com/Bud/poya2.htm |access-date=8 August 2018 |website=Lanka Library}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Same Months — Different Names 12 Months As Per Sinhalese Calendar in Sri Lanka |date=9 May 2020 |url=https://nadee-12silva.medium.com/same-months-different-names-cefa3d36aebb}}</ref>

Like the Old Norse calendar, the [[Anglo-Saxons]] had their own calendar before they were [[Christianized]] which reflected native traditions and deities. These months were attested by [[Bede]] in his works ''On Chronology'' and ''[[The Reckoning of Time]]'' written in the 8th&nbsp;century.<ref name="Wuffings">{{cite web sfnp|last=Newton |first=Sam, Dr. |year=2000 |title=The Old English Calendar |website=Wuffings |url=http://www.wuffings.co.uk/OECalendar.htm |access-date=8 August 2018}}</ref> His [[Old English]] month names are probably written as pronounced in Bede's native [[Northumbrian dialect]]. The months were named after the Moon; the new moon marking the end of an old month and start of a new month; the [[full moon]] occurring in the middle of the month, after which the whole month took its name.

When an [[Intercalation (timekeeping)|intercalary]] month was needed, a third ''Litha'' month was inserted in mid-summer.<ref name="Wuffings"/>{{sfnp|Newton|2000}}