{"id":1454,"date":"2021-09-26T12:19:15","date_gmt":"2021-09-26T12:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=1454"},"modified":"2021-09-26T12:19:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T12:19:17","slug":"omniglot-news-26-09-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=1454","title":{"rendered":"Omniglot News (26\/09\/21)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Omniglot News (26\/09\/21)\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-09-26T12:19:15+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"There are three new languages on Omniglot this week:\n\n \tKambera (hilu Humba), a Sumba-Flores language spoken mainly in the east of Sumba Island in the Lesser Sunda Islands in East Nusa Tenggara province of Indonesia.\n \tMentawai  (Behase Mentawei), a ...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news260921.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1906\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1454-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news260921.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news260921.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news260921.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news260921.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=1454-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news260921.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"news260921.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>There are three new languages on Omniglot this week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/kambera.htm\">Kambera<\/a> (hilu Humba), a Sumba-Flores language spoken mainly in the east of Sumba Island in the Lesser Sunda Islands in East Nusa Tenggara province of Indonesia.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/mentawai.htm\">Mentawai<\/a>  (Behase Mentawei), a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in the Mentawai Islands in West Sumatra province of Indonesia.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/gayo.htm\">Gayo<\/a> (Basa Gayo), a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in Aceh province in the highland region of north Sumatra in Indonesia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There\u2019s new adapated script on Omniglot week called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/conscripts\/hermosaespanola.htm\">Hermosa espa\u00f1ola<\/a> (\u0647\u0639\u0631\u0645\u06c6\u0633\u0627 \u0639\u0633\u067e\u0627\u06bd\u06c6\u0644\u0627), which is a way to write Spanish with the Arabic alphabet devised by Zayan Anwar.<\/p>\n<p>There are new numbers pages in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/numbers\/protoitalic.htm\">Proto-Italic<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/numbers\/umbrian.htm\">Umbrian<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/numbers\/oscan.htm\">Oscan<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/numbers\/ket.htm\">Ket<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the Omniglot blog this week I wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=21458\">a post<\/a> about the Japanese word \u8cd1\u3084\u304b \/ \u306b\u304e\u3084\u304b (nigiyaka), because I just liked the sound of it, and related words in Japanese and Chinese, as well as the usual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=21474\">language quiz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The mystery language in last week\u2019s language quiz was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/kanakanavu.htm\">Kanakanavu<\/a>, a Southern Tsouic language spoken in the villages of Manga and Takanua in Namasia District (\u90a3\u746a\u590f\u5340) of Kaohsiung (\u9ad8\u96c4) in southern Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>In this week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/\">Celtiadur<\/a> post you can find connections between words for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2021\/09\/23\/victory\/\">victory<\/a> in Celtic languages, the English word <strong>booty<\/strong>, and Queen <strong>Boudica<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=1441\">Adventure in Etymology<\/a> looks into the origins of the word <strong>neighbour<\/strong>, as I got to know some of my neighbours better this week. I found out that some of them speak other languages, including Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, French and Irish, and I got to speak a bit of all those languages, and some Welsh as well with one of my builders.<\/p>\n<p>I made a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/CJ6mo7R9jPc\">new video<\/a> this week featuring me play a tune I wrote a few years ago called the Dancing Donkeys on four different instruments, and it&#8217;s been getting a lot of views and likes on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@ieithgi\/video\/7011603246217317638?lang=en&amp;is_copy_url=0&amp;is_from_webapp=v1&amp;sender_device=pc&amp;sender_web_id=6995904666995918342\">TikTok<\/a> particularly.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CJ6mo7R9jPc\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In other news, work started on laying the foundations of my new garden studio this week:<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/omniglot\/51505025239\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Laying the foundations for my garden studio\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/51505025239_bce2f282f2_z.jpg\" alt=\"Laying the foundations for my garden studio\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\"><\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>For more Omniglot News see:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/\">https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Omniglossia\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/Omniglossia<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/omniglot\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/omniglot\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a 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href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/uk\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_flow&amp;SESSION=aLjPfXL-vP_1gQ_U23Iz8_hSWLlhzLHPMFZrt32dIEfG8htoNFLYaPoWkv8&amp;dispatch=5885d80a13c0db1f8e263663d3faee8def8934b92a630e40b7fef61ab7e9fe63\">PayPal<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/omniglot\">Patreon<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/donations.htm\">contribute to Omniglot in other ways<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/create.blubrry.com\/resources\/podcast-media-hosting\/?code=omniglot\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/banners\/banner_blubrry.png\" alt=\"Blubrry podcast hosting\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Omniglot News (26\/09\/21)\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-09-26T12:19:15+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"There are three new languages on Omniglot this week:\n\n \tKambera (hilu Humba), a Sumba-Flores language spoken mainly in the east of Sumba Island in the Lesser Sunda Islands in East Nusa Tenggara province of Indonesia.\n \tMentawai  (Behase Mentawei), a ...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news260921.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1907\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1454-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news260921.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news260921.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news260921.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news260921.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=1454-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news260921.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"news260921.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>There are three new languages on Omniglot this week: Kambera (hilu Humba), a Sumba-Flores language spoken mainly in the east of Sumba Island in the Lesser Sunda Islands in East Nusa Tenggara province of Indonesia. Mentawai (Behase Mentawei), a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in the Mentawai Islands in West Sumatra province of Indonesia. Gayo (Basa Gayo), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,20,23,6,4,108,1,28,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-","category-english","category-french","category-irish","category-language","category-news","category-podcast","category-spanish","category-welsh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1454"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1456,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1454\/revisions\/1456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}