{"id":3918,"date":"2025-05-18T11:30:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T11:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=3918"},"modified":"2025-05-22T12:59:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T12:59:58","slug":"omniglot-news-18-05-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=3918","title":{"rendered":"Omniglot News (18\/05\/25)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Omniglot News (18\/05\/25)\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2025-05-18T11:30:31+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT3M09S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"\n\nHere\u2019s the latest news from the world of Omniglot.\n\nNew language pages: \n\n\n Nawdm (nawdm), a Gur language spoken in northern Togo and southern and eastern Ghana.\n Yom (Pila), a Gur language spoken in the Atacora, Borgou and Donga departments in the...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news180525.mp3\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"3.3\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_481\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3918-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news180525.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news180525.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news180525.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\/news180525.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=3918-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news180525.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"news180525.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\/nawdm.htm\">Nawdm<\/a> (nawdm), a Gur language spoken in northern Togo and southern and eastern Ghana.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/yom.htm\">Yom<\/a> (Pila), a Gur language spoken in the Atacora, Borgou and Donga departments in the northwest of Benin.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/akuapem.htm\">Akuapem<\/a>, a variety of Akan spoken mainly in southern Ghana, and in the southeast of the Ivory Coast.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/likpe.htm\">Likpe<\/a> (S\u03b5kp\u03b5l\u00e9), a Kwa language spoken in the Hoehoe District of the Volta Region in southeastern Ghana.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New numbers pages: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/numbers\/nawdm.htm\">Nawdm<\/a> (nawdm), a Gur language spoken in Togo and Ghana.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/numbers\/loma.htm\">Loma<\/a> (Lo\u0308o\u0308ma\u0300go\u0300o\u0300i), a Southwestern Mande language spoken in northern Liberia.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/numbers\/mandari.htm\">Mandari<\/a> (K\u00fat\u00fak n\u00e0 m\u00f9nd\u00e1r\u00ec), an Eastern Nilotic language spoken in Central Equatoria state in South Sudan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New phrases pages: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/phrases\/nawdm.htm\">Nawdm<\/a> (nawdm), a Gur language spoken in Togo and Ghana.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the Omniglot blog there\u2019s a new post entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=24039\">Rustling Frou-frous<\/a> &#8211; a frou-frou little post I rustled up about ways to say rustle in French, and there\u2019s also the usual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=24045\">Language Quiz<\/a>. See if you can guess what language this is:<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3918-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/quiz180525.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/quiz180525.mp3\">http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/quiz180525.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a clue: this language is spoken in Guyana and Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>The mystery language in last week\u2019s language quiz was: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/batakmandaling.htm\">Batak Mandailing<\/a> (Saro Mandailing), a Southern Batak language spoken mainly in North Sumatra Province in Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8iLevbjGlVI?si=kTsJevhtqNxSPGnr\" 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>This week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?page_id=2614\">Adventure in Etymology<\/a> is an assembly of words about the word <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=3913\">thing<\/a>, or something like that.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M7DlaQ5uLPA?si=VEt3cQQk1zD3ANdS\" 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\/DJw3KVbPoSC\/\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@ommiglot\/video\/7505497172574489878\">TikTok<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the Celtiadur blog there\u2019s a new post entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2025\/05\/14\/buckets-pails\/\">Buckets &#038; Pails<\/a> about words for <strong>bucket<\/strong>, <strong>pail<\/strong> and related things in Celtic languages. <\/p>\n<p>In other news, I finally finished the Spanish course on Duolingo this week, or all the lessons I hadn\u2019t got to yet disappeared. This has happened before for other languages, including Japanese, Irish and Scottish Gaelic. Sometimes lessons mysteriously disappear, and other times new ones appear. I&#8217;d previously finished all the Spanish lessons, for example, then a whole load more showed up. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m currently concentrating on Italian and Mandarin Chinese, and keeping my Japanese ticking over. I&#8217;m thinking about either trying a completely new language to me, or brushing up one of the ones I\u2019ve already studied. My streak is currently at 2,857 days &#8211; that\u2019s over 8 years (and 14 languages), and I don\u2019t want to lose it. 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New language pages: Nawdm (nawdm), a Gur language spoken in northern Togo and southern and eastern Ghana. Yom (Pila), a Gur language spoken in the Atacora, Borgou and Donga departments in the northwest of Benin. 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