{"id":2494,"date":"2023-01-15T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=2494"},"modified":"2023-01-15T22:22:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T22:22:08","slug":"omniglot-news-15-01-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=2494","title":{"rendered":"Omniglot News (15\/01\/23)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Omniglot News (15\/01\/23)\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2023-01-15T15:11:00+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Here\u2019s the latest news from the world of Omniglot.\n\nNew constructed script: Verbe\u0127en, which was created by EBT to write a constructed language being developed for fun. It was inspired by the roundness and curviness of Georgian Mkhedruli letters (\u10db\u10ee\u10d4\u10d3...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news150123.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8378\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2494-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news150123.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news150123.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news150123.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\/news150123.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=2494-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news150123.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"news150123.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>Here\u2019s the latest news from the world of Omniglot.<\/p>\n<p>New constructed script: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/conscripts\/verbehen.htm\">Verbe\u0127en<\/a>, which was created by EBT to write a constructed language being developed for fun. It was inspired by the roundness and curviness of Georgian Mkhedruli letters (\u10db\u10ee\u10d4\u10d3\u10e0\u10e3\u10da\u10d8).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/langsamples\/udhr_verbehen.gif\" alt=\"Sample text in Verbe\u0127en\" width=\"603\" height=\"147\"><\/p>\n<p>New adapted script: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/conscripts\/maldivianarabic.htm\">Maldivian Arabic<\/a>, which is a way to write Maldivian (Dhivehi) with the Arabic script devised by Mohamed Naaif.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"rtl\" style=\"text-align:right;\">\u0622 \u0642\u064e\u0627\u0646\u064f\u0648\u0646\u064f \u0671\u0644\u0652\u0623\u064e\u0633\u064e\u0627\u0633\u0650\u064a\u0651\u064f\u06ae\u0654 \u062d\u0650\u0645\u064e\u0627\u064a\u064e\u0629 \u0644\u0650\u0628\u0650\u06ae\u0654\u0646\u0652 \u0633\u0650\u064a\u064e\u0627\u0633\u0650\u064a \u062d\u0650\u0632\u0652\u0628\u064f\u062a\u064e\u0627\u0651\u0652 \u0647\u0650\u0646\u0652\u06ae\u065e\u0646\u0654 \u0637\u064e\u0631\u0650\u064a\u0642\u064e\u0627\u0629 \u062a\u064e\u0647 \u0647\u064e\u0645\u064e\u062c\u0654\u0647\u0650\u0641\u064e\u064a \u0646\u064f\u06a3\u064e\u0627\u0646\u064e\u0645\u064e \u0627\u0654 \u0642\u064e\u0627\u0646\u0640\u064f\u0648\u0646\u064f\u06ae\u0654\u0647 \u0645\u0650\u062b\u064e\u0627\u0644\u064e\u0643\u0650\u064a \u0627\u064e\u0644\u0650\u0641\u064e\u0627\u0646\u0652 \u0631\u064f\u0627\u06a3\u064e\u062c\u0651\u064e\u0646\u064e\u0645\u064e \u0633\u064e\u0644\u0627\u064e\u0645\u064e\u0629 \u06a3\u064e\u0627\u0646\u0654 \u0633\u0650\u068b\u0650\u0627\u064e\u0643\u064f \u0646\u0654\u064a\u0652\u0647 \u0627\u0654\u062a\u064e\u0643\u0654\u0647 \u0628\u064f\u0631\u0650\u064a\u06ae\u0654 \u0639\u0650\u0645\u064e\u0627\u0631\u064e\u0627\u062a\u064f\u06ae\u0654\u0647 \u0645\u0650\u062b\u064e\u0627\u0644\u0654\u0643\u0654\u06a3\u0654.<\/p>\n<p>There are new language pages about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/ikwerre.htm\">Ikwerre<\/a> (Gu-jingarliya), an Igboid language spoken in Rivers State in southern Nigeria.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/ogba.htm\">Ogba<\/a> (\u1eccgba), an Igboid language spoken in Rivers States in southern Nigeria<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/ayizo.htm\">Ayizo<\/a> (Ayiz\u0254-ko), a Gbe language spoken in southern Benin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are new numbers pages in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/numbers\/ikwerre.htm\">Ikwerre<\/a>, an Igboid language spoken in Rivers State in southern Nigeria.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/numbers\/jeju.htm\">Jeju<\/a> (\uc81c\uc8fc\ub9d0), a Koreanic language spoken in Jeju Province of South Korea.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/numbers\/nuer.htm\">Nuer<\/a> (Thok Naath), a Western Nilotic language spoken in South Sudan and western Ethiopia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are new family words pages in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/numbers\/telugu.htm\">Telugu<\/a> (\u0c24\u0c46\u0c32\u0c41\u0c17\u0c41), a Dravidian language spoken mainly in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana in southern India.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/numbers\/marathi.htm\">Marathi<\/a> (\u092e\u0930\u093e\u0920\u0940), a Southern Indo-Aryan language spoken mainly in the Indian state of Maharashtra.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the Omniglot blog we\u2019re telling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22665\">Half a Story<\/a> about words for excuse me and related things in Gaelic languages, and there\u2019s the usual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22673\">Language Quiz<\/a>. See if you can guess what language this is:<\/p>\n<p><audio controls=\"\"><source src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/quiz150123.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/quiz150123.mp3\" width=\"100\" height=\"50\"><\/audio><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a clue: this is language is spoken in the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>The mystery language in last week&#8217;s language quiz was<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/chinese\/xiang.htm\">Xiang \/ Hunanese<\/a> (\u6e58\u8bed\/\u6e56\u5357\u8bed), a Sinitic language spoken mainly in Hunan Province in southern China.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eEO2Agw1Wmk\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?cat=98\">Adventure in Etymology<\/a> we are being indirect and circuitous and looking at some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=2490\">Obtuse Pronking<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kudAHkPJoyE\" title=\"YouTube video player\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/\">Celtiadur<\/a> blog there\u2019s a post about words for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2023\/01\/10\/taking-hold\/\">Taking Hold<\/a> and related things in Celtic languages.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a new Celtic Pathways podcast about words for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=2480\">Swans<\/a> and related birds in Celtic languages.<\/p>\n<p>Improved pages: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/digaro.htm\">Digaro Mishmi language<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/numbers\/digaro.htm\">Digaro Mishmi numbers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/phrases\/creek.htm\">Muscogee (Creek-Seminole) phrases<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, my learning streak on Duolingo reached 2,000 days this week (2,003 today)! I\u2019m currently studying languages for around 10 hours a week, and am focusing on Japanese, Scottish Gaelic and Spanish.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duolingo.com\/profile\/Omniglossia\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/2000days.jpg\" alt=\"I'm on a 2000 day language learning streak on Duolingo\" width=\"629\" height=\"206\"><\/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.koreanclass101.com\/member\/go.php?r=614&amp;i=b0\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.koreanclass101.com\/images\/aff_banner\/468_60.gif\" alt=\"The Fastest Way to Learn Korean with KoreanClass101\" width=\"630\" height=\"81\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Omniglot News (15\/01\/23)\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2023-01-15T15:11:00+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Here\u2019s the latest news from the world of Omniglot.\n\nNew constructed script: Verbe\u0127en, which was created by EBT to write a constructed language being developed for fun. It was inspired by the roundness and curviness of Georgian Mkhedruli letters (\u10db\u10ee\u10d4\u10d3...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news150123.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8379\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2494-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news150123.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news150123.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news150123.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\/news150123.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=2494-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news150123.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"news150123.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>Here\u2019s the latest news from the world of Omniglot. New constructed script: Verbe\u0127en, which was created by EBT to write a constructed language being developed for fun. It was inspired by the roundness and curviness of Georgian Mkhedruli letters (\u10db\u10ee\u10d4\u10d3\u10e0\u10e3\u10da\u10d8). New adapted script: Maldivian Arabic, which is a way to write Maldivian (Dhivehi) with the [&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-2494","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\/2494","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=2494"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2502,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions\/2502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}