{"id":3848,"date":"2025-03-16T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=3848"},"modified":"2025-03-16T14:04:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T14:04:01","slug":"omniglot-news-16-03-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=3848","title":{"rendered":"Omniglot News (16\/03\/25)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Omniglot News (16\/03\/25)\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2025-03-16T14:04:00+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT2M40S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"\n\nHere\u2019s the latest news from the world of Omniglot.\n\nNew language pages: \n\n\n Saxwe (saxw\u025bgbe), a Gbe language spoken in the Atlantique, Couffo and Mono departments in the southwest of Benin.\n Ekpeye (\u1eb8kpeye), an Igboid language spoken in Rivers and ...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news160325.mp3\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"2.7\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2763\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3848-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news160325.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news160325.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news160325.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\/news160325.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=3848-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news160325.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"news160325.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 10px 15px;\" alt=\"Omniglot News\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the latest news from the world of Omniglot.<\/p>\n<p>New language pages: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/saxwe.htm\">Saxwe<\/a> (saxw\u025bgbe), a Gbe language spoken in the Atlantique, Couffo and Mono departments in the southwest of Benin.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/ekpeye.htm\">Ekpeye<\/a> (\u1eb8kpeye), an Igboid language spoken in Rivers and Bayelsa states in southern Nigeria.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/gun.htm\">Gun<\/a> (Gungbe), an Eastern Gbe language spoken in southeastern Benin and southwestern Nigeria.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New numbers page: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/numbers\/romani.htm\">Romani<\/a> (romani \u0107hib), an Indo-Aryan language spoken by Roma people throughtout Europe and the USA.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New adapted script: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/conscripts\/akjbi.htm\">Aksara K\u00e9mara Jawa-Bali-Indhon\u00e9sia<\/a> (\u17a2\u1780\u17d2\u179f\u179a\u1781\u17c1\u1798\u179a\u1787\u179c-\u1796\u179b\u17b7-\u17a5\u178e\u17d2\u178c\u17c4\u1793\u17c1\u179f\u17d2\u1799), a way to write Javanese, Balinese, Indonesian, etc with the Khmer script devised by Tom Mai.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/langsamples\/udhr_akjbi-javanese.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"78\" alt=\"Sample text in Aksara K\u00e9mara Jawa-Bali-Indhon\u00e9sia in Javanese\" \/><\/p>\n<p>New adapted script: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/conscripts\/croatianglagolitic.htm\">Hrvatsku Glagoljicu<\/a> (\u2c48\u2c43\u2c32\u2c30\u2c45\u2c44\u2c3d\u2c46 \u2c33\u2c3e\u2c30\u2c33\u2c41\u2c3e\u2c50\u2c3b\u2c4c\u2c46), a way to write Croatian with the Glagolitic script devised by Aahan Kotian.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/langsamples\/udhr_croatianglagolitic.jpg\" width=\"610\" height=\"101\" title=\"Sample text in Hrvatsku Glagoljicu\" alt=\"\u2c14\u2c32\u2c30 \u2c3e\u2c53\u2c34\u2c44\u2c3d\u2c30 \u2c31\u2c3b\u045b\u2c30 \u2c43\u2c30\u0452\u2c30\u2c53 \u2c44\u2c35 \u2c44\u2c3e\u2c41\u2c31\u2c41\u2c34\u2c40\u2c30 \u2c3b \u2c54\u2c34\u2c40\u2c30\u2c3d\u2c30 \u2c46 \u2c34\u2c41\u2c44\u2c45\u2c41\u2c51\u2c40\u2c44\u2c45\u2c32\u2c46 \u2c3b \u2c42\u2c43\u2c30\u2c32\u2c3b\u2c5e\u2c30. \u2c11\u2c40\u2c30 \u2c44\u2c46 \u2c41\u2c31\u2c34\u2c30\u2c43\u2c35\u2c40\u2c30 \u2c43\u2c30\u2c38\u2c46\u2c5e\u2c41\u2c5e \u2c3b \u2c44\u2c32\u2c3b\u2c54\u2c4e\u045b\u2c46 \u2c3b \u2c45\u2c43\u2c35\u2c31\u2c30 \u2c54\u2c34\u2c40\u2c3b \u2c42\u2c43\u2c35\u2c5e\u2c30 \u2c34\u2c43\u2c46\u2c33\u2c3b\u2c5e\u2c30 \u2c34\u2c30 \u2c42\u2c41\u2c44\u2c45\u2c46\u2c42\u2c30\u2c53 \u2c46 \u2c34\u2c46\u2c48\u2c46 \u2c31\u2c43\u2c30\u2c45\u2c44\u2c45\u2c32\u2c30.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the Omniglot blog there\u2019s a new post entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=23936\">Strong Strings<\/a> in which we find out whether the the words <strong>string<\/strong>, <strong>strong<\/strong>, <strong>strength<\/strong>, <strong>strait<\/strong>, <strong>stretch<\/strong> and <strong>strict<\/strong> related, and there\u2019s also the usual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=23949\">Language Quiz<\/a>. See if you can guess what language this is:<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3848-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/quiz160325.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/quiz160325.mp3\">http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/quiz160325.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a clue: this language is spoken in the Southeast Sulawesi Province in Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>The mystery language in last week\u2019s language quiz was: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/arikara.htm\">Arikara<\/a> (S\u00e1hni\u0161), a Northern Caddoan language spoken in Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota, USA.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8gnRrOYyEKI?si=beHWWC05eVv0OyHH\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?page_id=2644\">Celtic Pathways<\/a> podcast, we discover the possible Celtic roots of words for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=3822\">Soot<\/a> in French and other languages..<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bVvHa195AOo?si=iyDU7mzqxWiO-iXI\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DHOwaUXNGvr\/\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@ommiglot\/video\/7482111096007003414\">TikTok<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the Celtiadur blog, there are new posts about words for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2025\/03\/15\/soot\/\">Soot<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2025\/03\/11\/benches\/\">Benches<\/a> and related things in Celtic languages, and I made improvements to the post about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2020\/04\/13\/hedgehogs\/\">Hedgehogs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Improved page: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/tulu.htm\">Tulu<\/a> language page.<\/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:\/\/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 (16\/03\/25)\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2025-03-16T14:04:00+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT2M40S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"\n\nHere\u2019s the latest news from the world of Omniglot.\n\nNew language pages: \n\n\n Saxwe (saxw\u025bgbe), a Gbe language spoken in the Atlantique, Couffo and Mono departments in the southwest of Benin.\n Ekpeye (\u1eb8kpeye), an Igboid language spoken in Rivers and ...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news160325.mp3\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"2.7\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2764\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3848-3\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news160325.mp3?_=3\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news160325.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news160325.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\/news160325.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=3848-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news160325.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"news160325.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>Here\u2019s the latest news from the world of Omniglot. New language pages: Saxwe (saxw\u025bgbe), a Gbe language spoken in the Atlantique, Couffo and Mono departments in the southwest of Benin. Ekpeye (\u1eb8kpeye), an Igboid language spoken in Rivers and Bayelsa states in southern Nigeria. Gun (Gungbe), an Eastern Gbe language spoken in southeastern Benin and [&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":[9,15,160,88,8],"class_list":["post-3848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-music","category-news","category-podcast","tag-language","tag-music","tag-news","tag-omniglot","tag-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848","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=3848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3849,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3848\/revisions\/3849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}