{"id":144,"date":"2006-08-26T11:46:13","date_gmt":"2006-08-26T10:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/26\/name-the-language-2\/"},"modified":"2006-08-26T11:46:13","modified_gmt":"2006-08-26T10:46:13","slug":"name-the-language-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"Name the language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week we have a question from David. Can you identify the following language and translate it into English? Note: to make this slightly more difficult, I&#8217;ve made a phonetic transcription of the sentence using the IPA. The language isn&#8217;t normally written like this.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"30\" alt=\"mystery language\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/quiz260806.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Clues: This a well-known proverb. The language is a constructed one built over a period of many years and only a few people actually speak it.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/quiz260806.mp3\">recording<\/a> of another sentence in the same language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week we have a question from David. Can you identify the following language and translate it into English? Note: to make this slightly more difficult, I&#8217;ve made a phonetic transcription of the sentence using the IPA. The language isn&#8217;t normally written like this. Clues: This a well-known proverb. The language is a constructed one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-quiz-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}