{"id":1476,"date":"2021-10-03T13:31:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-03T13:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=1476"},"modified":"2021-10-03T13:31:09","modified_gmt":"2021-10-03T13:31:09","slug":"omniglot-news-03-08-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=1476","title":{"rendered":"Omniglot News (03\/08\/21)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Omniglot News (03\/08\/21)\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-10-03T13:31:07+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"There are three new languages on Omniglot this week:\n\n \tKusunda (\u092e\u093f\u0939\u093e\u0915 \/ \u0915\u0941\u0938\u093e\u0928\u094d\u0921\u093e), a language isolate spoken in the southern Rolpa District of Lumbini province in west-central Nepal.\n \tKodeoha, a Celebic language spoken in Southeast Sulawesi provinc...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news031021.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8551\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1476-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news031021.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news031021.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news031021.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\/news031021.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=1476-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news031021.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"news031021.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\/kusunda.htm\">Kusunda<\/a> (\u092e\u093f\u0939\u093e\u0915 \/ \u0915\u0941\u0938\u093e\u0928\u094d\u0921\u093e), a language isolate spoken in the southern Rolpa District of Lumbini province in west-central Nepal.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/kodeoha.htm\">Kodeoha<\/a>, a Celebic language spoken in Southeast Sulawesi province of Indonesia.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/bungku.htm\">Bungku<\/a>, a Celebic language spoken in the provinces of Central Sulawesi and Southeast Sulawesi in Indonesia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There\u2019s new constructed script on Omniglot this week called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/conscripts\/aketal.htm\">Aketal<\/a>, an abugida invented by Kazim\u00edr Bodn\u00e1r as an alternative way to write English.<\/p>\n<p>There are new pages of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/phrases\/norfuk.htm\">phrases<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/numbers\/norfuk.htm\">numbers<\/a>  in Norfuk, an English and Taihitian-based creole language spoken on Norfolk Island in the Pacific, near Australia.<\/p>\n<p>On the Omniglot blog this week there\u2019s a post called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=21476\">Water Wagons<\/a>, which looks into the origins of the phrase \u2018to be on the wagon\u2019, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=21494\">Language Quiz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last week&#8217;s mystery language was <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mambwe-Lungu_language\">(Mambwe-)Lungu<\/a> (ichiRungu), a Bantu language spoken at the southern end of Lake Tanganyika in Tanzania and Zambia.<\/p>\n<p>In this week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/\">Celtiadur<\/a> post you can find connections between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2021\/09\/29\/circles\/\">circle-related words<\/a> in Celtic languages, and the English word irrigate.<\/p>\n<p>As quite a bit of wet stuff has been falling out of the sky this week, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=1467\">Adventure in Etymology<\/a> looks into the origins of the word <strong>rain<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>I finally got round to making a new episode of the Radio Omniglot podcast, which looks at the history and use of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=1457\">Emoji (\ud83d\uddbc\ufe0f\u270d\ufe0f)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote a new song this week called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/songs\/sager\/musicintheair.htm\">Music in the Air<\/a>, which you can also find on <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/simon-ager\/musicintheair\">SoundCloud<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@ieithgi\/video\/7013771544484678918?lang=en&amp;is_copy_url=0&amp;is_from_webapp=v1&amp;sender_device=pc&amp;sender_web_id=6995904666995918342\">Tiktok<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/k3wyBpO_OG4\">YouTube<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k3wyBpO_OG4\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/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 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itemprop=\"description\" content=\"There are three new languages on Omniglot this week:\n\n \tKusunda (\u092e\u093f\u0939\u093e\u0915 \/ \u0915\u0941\u0938\u093e\u0928\u094d\u0921\u093e), a language isolate spoken in the southern Rolpa District of Lumbini province in west-central Nepal.\n \tKodeoha, a Celebic language spoken in Southeast Sulawesi provinc...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news031021.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8552\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1476-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news031021.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news031021.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news031021.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\/news031021.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=1476-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news031021.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"news031021.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>There are three new languages on Omniglot this week: Kusunda (\u092e\u093f\u0939\u093e\u0915 \/ \u0915\u0941\u0938\u093e\u0928\u094d\u0921\u093e), a language isolate spoken in the southern Rolpa District of Lumbini province in west-central Nepal. Kodeoha, a Celebic language spoken in Southeast Sulawesi province of Indonesia. Bungku, a Celebic language spoken in the provinces of Central Sulawesi and Southeast Sulawesi in Indonesia. 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