{"id":2125,"date":"2022-08-07T16:44:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T16:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=2125"},"modified":"2022-08-07T16:44:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T16:44:04","slug":"omniglot-news-07-08-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=2125","title":{"rendered":"Omniglot News (07\/08\/22)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Omniglot News (07\/08\/22)\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2022-08-07T16:44:02+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Here\u2019s the latest news from the world of Omniglot.\n\nThis week we have a new page about General Chinese (Tungdzih) a way to write all major varieties of Chinese with the Roman alphabet, or using Chinese characters syllabically. It was invented by \u8d99\u5143\u4efb ...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news-070822.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_354\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2125-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news-070822.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news-070822.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news-070822.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\/news-070822.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=2125-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news-070822.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"news-070822.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>Here\u2019s the latest news from the world of Omniglot.<\/p>\n<p>This week we have a new page about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/chinese\/generalchinese.htm\">General Chinese<\/a> (Tungdzih) a way to write all major varieties of Chinese with the Roman alphabet, or using Chinese characters syllabically. It was invented by \u8d99\u5143\u4efb (Zh\u00e0o Yu\u00e1nr\u00e8n) in the early 20th century, and he also invented <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gwoyeu_Romatzyh\">Gwoyeu Romatzyh<\/a> (\u56fd\u8bed\u7f57\u9a6c\u5b57), which a way to write Mandarin Chinese with the Roman alphabet using tone spelling. It\u2019s sometimes used in Taiwan.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a new constructed script called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/conscripts\/kacheritopu.htm\">Kacheritopu<\/a>, which was invented by Johan Sommansson. It&#8217;s not intended for any language in particular, and is loosely based on the Devanagari alphabet.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/langsamples\/udhr_kacheritopu.jpg\" alt=\"Sample text in the Kacheritopu Alphabet\" width=\"547\" height=\"406\"><\/p>\n<p>There are new language pages about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/arabic_najdi.htm\">Najdi Arabic<\/a> (\u0627\u0644\u0644\u0647\u062c\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0646\u062c\u062f\u064a\u0629), a variety of Arabic spoken mainly in the Najd region of Saudi Arabia.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/obo.htm\">Obo<\/a> (Manobo), a Central Manobo language spoken in Mindanao in the Philippines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are new numbers pages in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/numbers\/bagvalal.htm\">Bagvalal<\/a> (\u043a\u044aIa\u0432\u0430\u043d\u043d\u0430\u0431 \u043c\u0438\u0446\u0446\u0438), a Northeast Caucasian language spoken in Dagestan in Russia and in parts of Georgian.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/numbers\/archi.htm\">Archi<\/a> (\u0410\u0440\u0448\u0430\u0442\u0442\u0435\u043d \u0447\u04c0\u0430\u0442), a Northeast Caucasian language spoken in the village of Archi in southern Dagestan in the Russian Federation, which has a whole set of numbers for counting sheep.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/numbers\/aguaruna.htm\">Aguaruna<\/a> (Awaj\u00fan), a Jivaroan language spoken in parts of Peru.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/numbers\/chamalal.htm\">Chamalal<\/a> (\u0447\u0430\u043c\u0430\u043b\u0430\u043b\u0434\u0443\u0431 \u043c\u0438\u0447\u04c0\u0447\u04c0), a Northeast Caucasian language spoken in southwestern Dagestan in the Russian Federation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve was kind of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22377\">Feverish<\/a> earlier this week, so wrote an Omniglot blog post about it, and there&#8217;s the usual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22382\">Language Quiz<\/a>. See if you can guess what language this is:<\/p>\n<p><audio controls=\"\"><source src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/quiz070822.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/quiz070822.mp3\" width=\"100\" height=\"50\"><\/audio><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a clue: this language is spoken in Brazil and Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>The mystery language in last week&#8217;s language quiz was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/chuvash.htm\">Chuvash<\/a> (\u0427\u04d1\u0432\u0430\u0448 \u0447\u04d7\u043b\u0445\u0438), a Bolgar Turkic language spoken in the Chuvash Republic in the west of the Russian Federation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UNtt1Dwpcu8\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/\">Celtiadur<\/a> post are about words for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2022\/08\/02\/trembing\/\">Trembling<\/a> and related things in Celtic languages.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s an episode of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?cat=122\">Celtic Pathways<\/a> podcast about words for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=2106\">Family<\/a> and related things.<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?cat=98\">Adventure in Etymology<\/a> we find out what links the word <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=2111\">Fever<\/a> with words for day, flame and to singe in English, Irish and Welsh.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pdWiPhSpgDw\" 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 also made improvements to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/archi.htm\">Archi<\/a> language page.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, on a trip to Aberystwyth last weekend I picked up a dose of corona virus and haven\u2019t been feeling great this week. The friend I went to see in Aberystwyth wasn\u2019t well then, and later found out she had corona. On Thursday I tested myself and found out I had it too. 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It was invented by \u8d99\u5143\u4efb ...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news-070822.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_355\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2125-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news-070822.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news-070822.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news-070822.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\/news-070822.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=2125-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news-070822.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"news-070822.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>Here\u2019s the latest news from the world of Omniglot. This week we have a new page about General Chinese (Tungdzih) a way to write all major varieties of Chinese with the Roman alphabet, or using Chinese characters syllabically. It was invented by \u8d99\u5143\u4efb (Zh\u00e0o Yu\u00e1nr\u00e8n) in the early 20th century, and he also invented Gwoyeu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125","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=2125"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2127,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2125\/revisions\/2127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}