{"id":3258,"date":"2024-03-03T15:25:57","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T15:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=3258"},"modified":"2024-03-03T15:25:57","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T15:25:57","slug":"omniglot-news-03-03-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=3258","title":{"rendered":"Omniglot News (03\/03\/24)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Omniglot News (03\/03\/24)\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2024-03-03T15:25:57+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT3M58S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"\n\nHere\u2019s the latest news from the world of Omniglot. \n\nThere are new language pages about:\n\n\n  Ghomala\u02bc (Gh\u0254ma\u0301la\u0301\u02bc), a Bamileke language spoken in the West Region of Cameroon.\n  Fe\u02bcfe\u02bc (F\u00e8\u02bc\u00e9f\u011b\u02bc\u00e8), a Bamileke language spoken in the West Region of Cam...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news030324.mp3\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"4.4\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2747\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3258-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news030324.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news030324.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news030324.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\/news030324.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=3258-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news030324.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"news030324.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/logos\/logo_omniglotnews-small.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 0 15px;\" alt=\"Omniglot News\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the latest news from the world of Omniglot. <\/p>\n<p>There are new language pages about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/ghomala.htm\">Ghomala\u02bc<\/a> (Gh\u0254ma\u0301la\u0301\u02bc), a Bamileke language spoken in the West Region of Cameroon.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/fefe.htm\">Fe\u02bcfe\u02bc<\/a> (F\u00e8\u02bc\u00e9f\u011b\u02bc\u00e8), a Bamileke language spoken in the West Region of Cameroon<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/lengo.htm\">Lengo<\/a>, a Southeast Solomonic language spoken on Guadalcanal Island in the Solomon Islands.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/lau.htm\">Lau<\/a>, a Southeast Solomonic language spoken on Malaita Island in the Solomon Islands.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New constructed script: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/conscripts\/fana.htm\">Fana<\/a>, a syllabic script created by Brian Drake to write his constructed language, <em>fana<\/em>, which is based on Toki Pona, but with more phonemes, a more complex grammar, and a larger vocabulary.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/langsamples\/smp_fana.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"456\" alt=\"Sample text in fana\" \/><\/p>\n<p>New numbers pages: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/numbers\/ghomala.htm\">Ghomala\u02bc<\/a> (Gh\u0254ma\u0301la\u0301\u02bc), a Bamileke language spoken in the West Region of Cameroon.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/numbers\/lengo.htm\">Lengo<\/a>, a Southeast Solomonic language spoken on Guadalcanal Island in the Solomon Islands.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/numbers\/lau.htm\">Lau<\/a>, a Southeast Solomonic language spoken on Malaita Island in the Solomon Islands.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There\u2019s a new Omniglot blog post entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=23294\">Overflowing Vases<\/a> about ways to say \u2018the straw that broke the camel\u2019s back\u2019 and similar things in various languages, and there\u2019s the usual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=23303\">Language Quiz<\/a>. See if you can guess what language this is:<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3258-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/quiz030324.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/quiz030324.mp3\">http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/quiz030324.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Here\u2019s a clue: this language is spoken in New Caledonia.<\/p>\n<p>The mystery language in last week\u2019s language quiz was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/xong.htm\">Xong<\/a> (Dut Xonb), a Hmong-Mien language spoken in southern China.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sVN0oEGAAv4?si=OBXjrvMeYKm0Qlv9\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this week\u2019s episode of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?page_id=2644\">Celtic Pathways<\/a> podcast, entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=3255\">Bijou Fingers<\/a>, we find Celtic fingers among French jewellery.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4ogD7GgT9Lo?si=YKHGuIjF9hUCCq6b\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On the Celtiadur blog there&#8217;s a new post entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2024\/02\/28\/long-distance\/\">Long Distance<\/a>, about words for long, distant and related things, and I made improvements to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2020\/12\/02\/fingers\/\">Fingers and Toes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2018\/10\/18\/silver-money\/\">Silver &#038; Money<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2019\/05\/05\/streams-and-currents\/\">Streams and Currents<\/a> posts.<\/p>\n<p>I also made improvements to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/paici.htm\">Paic\u00ee<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/huambisa.htm\">Huambisa<\/a> language pages.<\/p>\n<p>New song: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/songs\/sager\/colourlessgreenideas.htm\">Colourless Green Ideas<\/a> &#8211; based on the sentence &#8216;Colorless green ideas sleep furiously&#8217;, which was coined by the linguist Noam Chomsky in his 1957 book, <em>Syntactic Structures<\/em>, to demonstrate that a sentence can be grammatically correct, but semantically nonsensical. I started writing it in May 2023, then forgot about. I came back to it in and finally finished writing and recording it in January \/ February 2024. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1758695898&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/simon-ager\" title=\"Simon Ager\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Simon Ager<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/simon-ager\/colourless-green-ideas\" title=\"Colourless Green Ideas\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Colourless Green Ideas<\/a><\/div>\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><a href=\"http:\/\/www.japanesepod101.com\/member\/go.php?r=759259&#038;i=b0\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/banners\/japanesepod101.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" style=\"float:right; margin: 0 0 0 15px;\" alt=\"JapanesePod101.com\" \/><\/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&#038;SESSION=aLjPfXL-vP_1gQ_U23Iz8_hSWLlhzLHPMFZrt32dIEfG8htoNFLYaPoWkv8&#038;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<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/my.kualo.com\/uk\/go\/00572\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.kualo.com\/rewards\/uk-unlimited2-468x60.gif\" width=\"468\" height=\"60\" border=\"0\"\nalt=\"Unlimited Web Hosting - Kualo\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Omniglot News (03\/03\/24)\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2024-03-03T15:25:57+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT3M58S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"\n\nHere\u2019s the latest news from the world of Omniglot. \n\nThere are new language pages about:\n\n\n  Ghomala\u02bc (Gh\u0254ma\u0301la\u0301\u02bc), a Bamileke language spoken in the West Region of Cameroon.\n  Fe\u02bcfe\u02bc (F\u00e8\u02bc\u00e9f\u011b\u02bc\u00e8), a Bamileke language spoken in the West Region of Cam...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news030324.mp3\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"4.4\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2748\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3258-3\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news030324.mp3?_=3\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news030324.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news030324.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\/news030324.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=3258-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news030324.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"news030324.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>Here\u2019s the latest news from the world of Omniglot. There are new language pages about: Ghomala\u02bc (Gh\u0254ma\u0301la\u0301\u02bc), a Bamileke language spoken in the West Region of Cameroon. Fe\u02bcfe\u02bc (F\u00e8\u02bc\u00e9f\u011b\u02bc\u00e8), a Bamileke language spoken in the West Region of Cameroon Lengo, a Southeast Solomonic language spoken on Guadalcanal Island in the Solomon Islands. Lau, a Southeast [&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-3258","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\/3258","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=3258"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3261,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3258\/revisions\/3261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}