{"id":1694,"date":"2022-01-16T12:56:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-16T12:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=1694"},"modified":"2022-01-16T12:56:21","modified_gmt":"2022-01-16T12:56:21","slug":"omniglot-news-16-01-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=1694","title":{"rendered":"Omniglot News (16\/01\/22)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Omniglot News (16\/01\/22)\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2022-01-16T12:56:19+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Here are details of the latest developments on Omniglot websites and blogs.\n\nThe new languages on Omniglot this week are:\n\n \tSouthern Qiang (Rrmearr), a Qiangic language spoken in the north of Sichuan Province in the south west of China.\n \tKumzari (\u0644...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news160122.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3484\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1694-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news160122.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news160122.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news160122.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\/news160122.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=1694-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news160122.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"news160122.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>Here are details of the latest developments on Omniglot websites and blogs.<\/p>\n<p>The new languages on Omniglot this week are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/southernqiang.htm\">Southern Qiang<\/a> (Rrmearr), a Qiangic language spoken in the north of Sichuan Province in the south west of China.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/kumzari.htm\">Kumzari<\/a> (\u0644\u0627\u063a\u0629 \u0643\u0645\u0632\u0627\u0631\u064a), a Western Iranian language spoken mainly in northern Oman, and also in southern Iran.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/weitou.htm\">Weitou<\/a> (\u570d\u982d\u8a71), a variety of Yue Chinese spoken in southern China, particularly in Shenzhen, and the New Territories of Hong Kong.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/alasha.htm\">Alasha<\/a> (\u1820\u182f\u1820\u1831\u1820\u1828), a variety of Mongolian spoken in Inner Mongolia in northern China.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There\u2019s a new constructed script &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/conscripts\/fla.htm\">Featural Lojban Abjad<\/a>, which is an alternative way to write Lojban devised by Punya Pranava Pasumarty.<\/p>\n<p>There are new numbers pages in: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/numbers\/monguor.htm\">Monguor<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/numbers\/santa.htm\">Santa<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/numbers\/kumzari.htm\">Kumzari<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/\">Omniglot blog<\/a> this week there\u2019s a post about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=21800\">Jargon<\/a>, and the usual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=21798\">Language Quiz<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The mystery language in last week&#8217;s language quiz was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/eyak.php\">Eyak<\/a>  (dAXunhyuuga\u2019), a Na-Den\u00e9 language that was spoken in south eastern Alaska in USA, and which is being currently being revived.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/\">Celtiadur<\/a> post this week is called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2022\/01\/13\/mysterious-secrets\/\">Mysterious Secrets<\/a> and looks at words for <strong>secret<\/strong> and related things in Celtic languages.<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=1658\">Adventure in Etymology<\/a> this week we\u2019re looking into the strange and unusual origins of the word <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=1688\">bizarre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VKbgwxdQDgw\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; 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The new languages on Omniglot this week are: Southern Qiang (Rrmearr), a Qiangic language spoken in the north of Sichuan Province in the south west of China. Kumzari (\u0644\u0627\u063a\u0629 \u0643\u0645\u0632\u0627\u0631\u064a), a Western Iranian language spoken mainly in northern Oman, and also in southern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,4,108,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-news","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694","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=1694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1695,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions\/1695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}