{"id":1565,"date":"2021-11-14T13:38:22","date_gmt":"2021-11-14T13:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=1565"},"modified":"2021-11-14T13:38:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-14T13:38:23","slug":"omniglot-news-14-11-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=1565","title":{"rendered":"Omniglot News (14\/11\/21)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Omniglot News (14\/11\/21)\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-11-14T13:38:22+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"There\u2019s a new constructed script on Omniglot this week called Abbekosima, which can be used to write English and Russian, and was inspired by the Japanese, Chinese and Korean scripts.\n\n\n\nThere are new language pages in:\n\n \tEast Frisian (\u014cstfr\u00e4isk), o...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news141121.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4557\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1565-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news141121.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news141121.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news141121.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\/news141121.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=1565-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news141121.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"news141121.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>There\u2019s a new constructed script on Omniglot this week called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/conscripts\/abbekosima.htm\">Abbekosima<\/a>, which can be used to write English and Russian, and was inspired by the Japanese, Chinese and Korean scripts.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/langsamples\/smp_abbekosima2.gif\" alt=\"Sample text in Abbekosima in Russian\" width=\"622\" height=\"200\"><\/p>\n<p>There are new language pages in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/eastfrisian.htm\">East Frisian<\/a> (\u014cstfr\u00e4isk), or East Frisian Low Saxon, a mixture of Eastlauwers Frisian, Low German, Dutch and French that is spoken in northern Germany.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/moloko.htm\">Moloko<\/a> (Ma M\u01ddloko), a Chadic language spoken in the Far North Province of Cameroon.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/wanetsi.htm\">Wanetsi<\/a> (\u0648\u06bc\u06d0\u0685\u064a), an Eastern Iranian language spoken in southwest Pakistan.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/sukuma.htm\">Sukuma<\/a> (K\u026asukuma), a northeast Bantu language spoken in northern Tanzania.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/migaama.htm\">Migaama<\/a> (m\u00ecg\u00e1\u00e0m\u00e1), an East Chadic language spoken in central Chad.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There\u2019s also a new numbers page in: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/numbers\/migaama.htm\">Migaama<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a new phrases page in: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/phrases\/tamasheq.htm\">Tamasheq<\/a> (Tafaghist), a Berber language spoken in parts of Mali and Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/\">Celtiadur<\/a> post this week is about words for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2021\/11\/09\/calling-words-2\/\">words, calls and cries<\/a> in Celtic languages.<\/p>\n<p>This week on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/\">Omniglot blog<\/a> there\u2019s a post about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=21620\">IndyLan<\/a>, a EU-funded project to promote and teach languages such as Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Northern Saami, Basque and Galician. There\u2019s a post called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=21625\">Misdirection<\/a> about directional words such as upward, downward and awkward &#8211; read it to find out which direction awkward is, and the usual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=21633\">Language Quiz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The mystery language in last week&#8217;s language quiz was <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blang_language\">Blang<\/a> (Pu Lang), a Palaungic language spoken in southern China, and northern Myanmar \/ Burma and northern Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>This week\u2019s Adventure in Etymology looks at the origins of the word <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=1560\">nogging<\/a>, which should not be confused with <strong>noggin<\/strong>, although they might be related.<\/p>\n<p>I also made improvements to the  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/marwari.htm\">Marwari language page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last week I wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=21604\">blog post<\/a> inspired by the Welsh idiom <strong>Mae e\u2019n cadw draenog yn ei boced<\/strong>, which means that he is careful with his money, or literally \u201che keeps a hedgehog in his pocket\u201d. This inspired me to write a new song this week called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/songs\/sager\/pockethedgehogs.htm\">Pocket Hedgehogs<\/a>. You can also hear this on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tv\/CWLpsmyIJqR\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@ieithgi\/video\/7029722707470077189?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=pc&amp;web_id6995904666995918342\">TikTok<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/JktA6zVZjgQ\">YouTube<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JktA6zVZjgQ\" 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 href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/omniglot\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/omniglot\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Omniglot-100430558332117\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Omniglot-100430558332117<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can also listen to this podcast on: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/gb\/podcast\/radio-omniglot\/id1432641094\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/music.amazon.com\/podcasts\/8b1b1d1b-b39e-4277-b28d-479a3b5043b3\/radio-omniglot\">Amazon Music<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/podcast\/radio-omniglot\">Stitcher<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/podcasts\/Education-Podcasts\/Radio-Omniglot-p1154145\/\">TuneIn<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.podchaser.com\/podcasts\/radio-omniglot-716327\">Podchaser<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/player.fm\/series\/radio-omniglot\">PlayerFM<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/podtail.com\/da\/podcast\/radio-omniglot\/\">podtail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to support this podcast, you can make a donation via <a 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 (14\/11\/21)\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-11-14T13:38:22+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"There\u2019s a new constructed script on Omniglot this week called Abbekosima, which can be used to write English and Russian, and was inspired by the Japanese, Chinese and Korean scripts.\n\n\n\nThere are new language pages in:\n\n \tEast Frisian (\u014cstfr\u00e4isk), o...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news141121.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4558\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1565-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news141121.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news141121.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news141121.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\/news141121.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=1565-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news141121.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"news141121.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>There\u2019s a new constructed script on Omniglot this week called Abbekosima, which can be used to write English and Russian, and was inspired by the Japanese, Chinese and Korean scripts. There are new language pages in: East Frisian (\u014cstfr\u00e4isk), or East Frisian Low Saxon, a mixture of Eastlauwers Frisian, Low German, Dutch and French that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,4,11,108,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-music","category-news","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1565"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1570,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions\/1570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}