{"id":2781,"date":"2023-05-28T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-28T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=2781"},"modified":"2023-06-04T12:53:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-04T12:53:37","slug":"omniglot-news-28-05-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=2781","title":{"rendered":"Omniglot News (28\/05\/23)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Omniglot News (28\/05\/23)\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2023-05-28T09:30:00+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"There are new language pages about:\n\n \t\ua78cAre\ua78care, a Southeast Solomonic language spoken in Malaita Province in the Solomon Islands.\n \tBena (Kibena), a Northeast Bantu language spoken in southern Tanzania.\n \tKunda (Chikunda), a Bantu language spoken in...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news280523.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7764\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2781-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news280523.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news280523.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news280523.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\/news280523.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=2781-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news280523.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"news280523.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>There are new language pages about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/areare.htm\">\ua78cAre\ua78care<\/a>, a Southeast Solomonic language spoken in Malaita Province in the Solomon Islands.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/bena.htm\">Bena<\/a> (Kibena), a Northeast Bantu language spoken in southern Tanzania.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/kunda.htm\">Kunda<\/a> (Chikunda), a Bantu language spoken in mainly in Zimbabwe, and also in Zambia and Mozambique.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New adapted script: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/conscripts\/skriptamazigh.htm\">Skript Ama\u017cig\u0127<\/a> (\u2d59\u2d3d\u2d49\u2d52\u2d5c \u2d30\u2d4e\u2d30\u2d65\u2d49\u2d56), which is a way to write Maltese with the Neo-Tifinagh alphabet devised by Grunky Scripples.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/langsamples\/smp_skriptamazigh.jpg\" alt=\"Sample text in Skript Ama\u017cig\u0127\" width=\"581\" height=\"162\"><\/p>\n<p>New phrases page in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/phrases\/oodham.htm\">O\u02bcodham<\/a> (O\u2019odham \u00d1eoki), an Uto-Aztecan language spoken mainly in Arizona in the USA, and also northern Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>New numbers page:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/numbers\/oldbreton.htm\">Old Breton<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/numbers\/middlebreton.htm\">Middle Breton<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/numbers\/bena.htm\">Bena<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/numbers\/kunda.htm\">Kunda<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/numbers\/middleirish.htm\">Middle Irish<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a new Omniglot blog post entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22899\">Joyful Delight<\/a> about the Finnish word <strong>iloinen<\/strong> (happy, cheerful, glad, merry) and related words in Finnish and other languages, and the usual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=22905\">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\/quiz28052023.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/quiz28052023.mp3\" width=\"100\" height=\"50\"><\/audio><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a clue: this language is spoken mainly in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>The mystery language in last week&#8217;s language quiz was <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sena_language\">Sena<\/a>, a Bantu language spoken in Mozamique and Malawi.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wh4Gu1jLJqw\" 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\/?page_id=2644\">Celtic Pathways podcast<\/a> we uncover the Celtic origins of the word <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=2767\">Beret<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jIfaBA_2Ly8\" 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>There\u2019s a new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/\">Celtiadur<\/a> post called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2023\/05\/23\/quintuple\/\">Quintuple<\/a> about words for five and related things, and one called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2023\/05\/18\/fourfold\/\">Short Cuts<\/a> about words for short, cut and related things in Celtic languages.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, I had an interesting discussion this week about writing systems with Tim Brookes, the man behind the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.endangeredalphabets.com\/\">Endangered Alphabets<\/a> project, who was inspired by Omniglot.<\/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>Radio Omniglot podcasts are brought to you in association with <a href=\"https:\/\/blubrry.com\/services\/podcast-hosting\/?code=omniglot\">Blubrry Podcast Hosting<\/a>, a great place to host your podcasts. Get your first month free with the promo code <strong>omniglot<\/strong>.<\/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 (28\/05\/23)\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2023-05-28T09:30:00+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"There are new language pages about:\n\n \t\ua78cAre\ua78care, a Southeast Solomonic language spoken in Malaita Province in the Solomon Islands.\n \tBena (Kibena), a Northeast Bantu language spoken in southern Tanzania.\n \tKunda (Chikunda), a Bantu language spoken in...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news280523.mp3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_7765\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2781-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news280523.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news280523.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news280523.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\/news280523.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=2781-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news280523.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"news280523.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>There are new language pages about: \ua78cAre\ua78care, a Southeast Solomonic language spoken in Malaita Province in the Solomon Islands. Bena (Kibena), a Northeast Bantu language spoken in southern Tanzania. Kunda (Chikunda), a Bantu language spoken in mainly in Zimbabwe, and also in Zambia and Mozambique. New adapted script: Skript Ama\u017cig\u0127 (\u2d59\u2d3d\u2d49\u2d52\u2d5c \u2d30\u2d4e\u2d30\u2d65\u2d49\u2d56), which is a [&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-2781","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\/2781","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=2781"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2793,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions\/2793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}