{"id":1839,"date":"2022-03-27T13:14:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T13:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=1839"},"modified":"2022-03-27T13:14:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T13:14:42","slug":"omniglot-news-27-03-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=1839","title":{"rendered":"Omniglot News (27\/03\/22)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Omniglot News (27\/03\/22)\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2022-03-27T13:14:41+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Here is the latest news from Omniglot.\n\nThe new language pages this week are:\n\n \tGalo (`Galoo), a Tani language spoken in the states of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam in the northeast of India.\n \tSonge (Kisonge), a Bantu language spoken in the south of ...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news270322.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1037\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1839-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news270322.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news270322.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news270322.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\/news270322.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=1839-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news270322.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"news270322.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>Here is the latest news from Omniglot.<\/p>\n<p>The new language pages this week are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/galo.htm\">Galo<\/a> (`Galoo), a Tani language spoken in the states of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam in the northeast of India.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/songe.htm\">Songe<\/a> (Kisonge), a Bantu language spoken in the south of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/goral.htm\">Goral<\/a> (G\u00f3rolski), a group of West Slavic dialects spoken in the Goral Lands in southern Poland, northern Slovakia and northeastern Czechia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are a new numbers pages in: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/numbers\/ndebele-southern.htm\">Southern Ndebele<\/a> (isiNdebele), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/numbers\/luganda.htm\">Luganda<\/a> (Oluganda), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/numbers\/comorian.htm\">Comorian<\/a> (shiKomori) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/numbers\/tsonga.htm\">Tsonga<\/a> (Xitsonga), which are all Bantu languages.<\/p>\n<p>New page about telling the time and other time-related expressions in: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/time\/basque.htm\">Basque<\/a> (euskera).<\/p>\n<p>There are new constructed scripts: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/conscripts\/siekoo.htm\">Siekoo<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/conscripts\/quadoo.htm\">Quadoo<\/a>, which are tactile alphabets developed by Alexander Fako\u00f3.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Siekoo<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/langsamples\/udhr_siekoo.gif\" alt=\"Sample text in the Siekoo alphabet\" width=\"567\" height=\"129\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Quadoo<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/langsamples\/udhr_quadoo.gif\" alt=\"Sample text in the Quadoo alphabet\" width=\"592\" height=\"181\"><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s new Omniglot blog post entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22052\">Sleeve Monkeys<\/a>, which is about Dutch and English idioms related to monkeys, sleeves, cats and bags, and the usual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?page_id=22046\">Language Quiz<\/a> &#8211; see if you can guess what language this is.<\/p>\n<p>The mystery language in last week&#8217;s language quiz was <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dciriku_language\">Gciriku<\/a> (Rumanyo), a Bantu language spoken in Namibia, Bostwana and Angola.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7Lt-A4XgSqE\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/\">Celtiadur<\/a> posts this week are entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2022\/03\/26\/festive-feasts\/\">Festive Feasts<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2022\/03\/22\/salt\/\">Salt<\/a>, and are about words for festivals, feasts, banquets, salt and related things in Celtic languages.<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?cat=98\">Adventure in Etymology<\/a> this week we explore the origins of the English word <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=1832\">salt<\/a>, and discover that words such as salad, salami, salsa, sauce and sausage come from the same root.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FhQKdTIftm4\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I made improvements to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/greek.htm\">Greek<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/basque.htm\">Basque<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/vai.htm\">Vai<\/a> language pages, and made a separate page about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/vaisyllabary.htm\">Vai syllabary<\/a>.<\/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:\/\/www.japanesepod101.com\/member\/go.php?r=759259&amp;i=b0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/banners\/banner_japanesepod.jpg\" alt=\"The Fastest Way to Learn Japanese Guaranteed with JapanesePod101.com\" width=\"630\" height=\"83\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Omniglot News (27\/03\/22)\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2022-03-27T13:14:41+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Here is the latest news from Omniglot.\n\nThe new language pages this week are:\n\n \tGalo (`Galoo), a Tani language spoken in the states of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam in the northeast of India.\n \tSonge (Kisonge), a Bantu language spoken in the south of ...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news270322.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1038\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1839-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news270322.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news270322.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news270322.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\/news270322.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=1839-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news270322.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"news270322.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>Here is the latest news from Omniglot. The new language pages this week are: Galo (`Galoo), a Tani language spoken in the states of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam in the northeast of India. Songe (Kisonge), a Bantu language spoken in the south of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Goral (G\u00f3rolski), a group of West [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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-1839","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\/1839","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=1839"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1845,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions\/1845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}