{"id":3645,"date":"2010-10-04T18:00:07","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=3645"},"modified":"2010-10-04T18:00:07","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T17:00:07","slug":"puzzles-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=3645","title":{"rendered":"Puzzles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can anyone decipher the writing around this disc? <\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/unidentified\/disc.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"569\" alt=\"Disc with mystery writing around it\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It was sent in by a visitor to Omniglot who&#8217;s been told that it&#8217;s in a Kufic version of the Arabic script, and who thinks it could be Ottoman Turkish or Persian.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>A speaker of Hmong who wrote to me recently mentioned that consonants are called <em>tsiaj ntawv txiv<\/em> (the father letters) and vowels are  called <em>tsiaj ntawv niam<\/em> (the mother letters) in Hmong, and would like to know whether any other languages have similar names for consonants and vowels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can anyone decipher the writing around this disc? It was sent in by a visitor to Omniglot who&#8217;s been told that it&#8217;s in a Kufic version of the Arabic script, and who thinks it could be Ottoman Turkish or Persian. A speaker of Hmong who wrote to me recently mentioned that consonants are called tsiaj [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-puzzles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645","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=3645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}