{"id":4020,"date":"2025-07-20T12:45:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T12:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=4020"},"modified":"2025-07-20T12:45:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T12:45:30","slug":"omniglot-news-20-07-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=4020","title":{"rendered":"Omniglot News (20\/07\/25)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Omniglot News (20\/07\/25)\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2025-07-20T12:45:29+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT2M54S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"\n\nHere\u2019s the latest news from the world of Omniglot.\n\nNew phonetic script: Vniverall  (Universal) Alphabet, which was created by Thomas Harriot in the 1580s as a way to write the Carolina Algonquian language.\n\n\n\nNew constructed script: Ranting Mualan...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news200725.mp3\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"3.1\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4422\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4020-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news200725.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news200725.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news200725.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\/news200725.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=4020-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news200725.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"news200725.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 phonetic script: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/vniverallalphabet.htm\">Vniverall  (Universal) Alphabet<\/a>, which was created by Thomas Harriot in the 1580s as a way to write the Carolina Algonquian language.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/langsamples\/smp_vnivesallalphabet.jpg\" width=\"475\" height=\"111\" alt=\"Vniversall Alphabet\" \/><\/p>\n<p>New constructed script: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/conscripts\/rantingmualang.htm\">Ranting Mualang<\/a>, which was created by Reza Sumanda as is a way to write Mualang, a Ibanic language spoken in West Kalimantan Province in Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/langsamples\/smp_rantingmualang.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"138\" alt=\"Sample text in the Ranting Mualang script\" \/><\/p>\n<p>New adapted script:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/conscripts\/hindica.htm\">Hindica<\/a> (\u0939\u093f\u0928\u094d\u0926\u093f\u091f\u200b\u200b), a way to write Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, etc with the Devanagari script devised by Melvin Hukarevi\u0107.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/langsamples\/udhr_hindica.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"100\" alt=\"Sample text in the Hindica Alphabet\" title=\"\u0938\u094d\u0935 \u0933\u0941\u0926\u094d\u0938\u094d\u0915 \u092c\u093f\u091a \u0930\u091c\u092f\u0941 \u0938\u0947 \u0938\u094d\u0932\u094b\u092c\u094b\u0926\u094d\u0928 \u0907 \u092f\u0947\u0926\u094d\u0928\u0915 \u0909 \u0926\u094b\u0938\u094d\u0924\u094b\u092f\u0928\u094d\u0938\u094d\u0924\u094d\u0935\u0941 \u0907 \u092a\u094d\u0930\u0935\u093f\u092e. \u0913\u0928 \u0938\u0941 \u0913\u092c\u094d\u0926\u0930\u0947\u0928 \u0930\u095b\u0941\u092e\u094b\u092e\u094d \u0907 \u0938\u094d\u0935\u0945\u0936\u094d\u091a\u0941 \u0907 \u0924\u094d\u0930\u0947\u092c \u092f\u0947\u0926\u094d\u0928\u093f \u092a\u094d\u0930\u0947\u092e \u0926\u094d\u0930\u0941\u0917\u093f\u092e \u0926 \u092a\u094b\u0938\u094d\u0924\u0941\u092a\u092f\u0941 \u0909 \u0926\u0941\u0939\u0941 \u092c\u094d\u0930\u0924\u094d\u0938\u094d\u0924\u094d\u0935.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>New language pages: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/katu.htm\">Katu<\/a> (K\u01a1tu), a Katuic language spoken in central Vietnam and southeastern Laos.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/aushi.htm\">Aushi<\/a> (Ikyaushi), a Northeast Bantu language spoken in the northeast of Zambia and the southeast of the DRC.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/pacoh.htm\">Pacoh<\/a>, (Pac\u00f3uh), a Katuic language spoken mainly in central Vietnam, and also in southern Laos.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New numbers pages: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/numbers\/kutenai.htm\">Kutenai<\/a> (ktunaxa), a language isolate spoken in Montana and Idaho in the USA, and British Columbia in Canada.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/numbers\/pacoh.htm\">Pacoh<\/a>, (Pac\u00f3uh), a Katuic language spoken mainly in central Vietnam, and also in southern Laos.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the Omniglot blog we find out whether the words <strong>show<\/strong>, <strong>sheen<\/strong> and <strong>shine<\/strong> are connected in a post entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=24120\">Shiny Sheens Show<\/a>, and there\u2019s the usual <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=24126\">Language Quiz<\/a>. See if you can guess what language this is:<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4020-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/quiz200725.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/quiz200725.mp3\">http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/soundfiles\/blog\/quiz200725.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a clue: this language is spoken in Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. <\/p>\n<p>The mystery language in last week\u2019s language quiz was: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/nukumanu.htm\">Nukumanu<\/a>, a Polynesian language spoken on Nukumanu Island in Bougainville province in Papua New Guinea.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ykfbmT1mk1I?si=MGkT6ZluwXFNVV9Q\" 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, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=4015\">Shovelling Oars<\/a>, we uncover the Celtic roots of words for <strong>oar<\/strong>, <strong>to row<\/strong> and related things in Basque.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/up1rBzhY1YI?si=idFyyNxCGxoPBftF\" 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\/DMSybp4Ng_3\/\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@ommiglot\/video\/7528811335220563222\">TikTok<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the Celtiadur blog there\u2019s a new post about words for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2025\/07\/16\/barrels-tuns-casks\/\">Barrels, Tuns &#038; Casks<\/a>, and related things in Celtic languages.<\/p>\n<p>Improved Celtiadur post: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2018\/10\/23\/thick\/\">Thick<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a new recording of a song I wrote in July 2012 called Chaos or The Tidy Person\u2019s Lament &#8211; now with added chaos!<\/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\/53521848&#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;\">Simon Ager<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/simon-ager\/chaos\" title=\"Chaos \/ The Tidy Person&#x27;s Lament\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Chaos \/ The Tidy Person&#x27;s Lament<\/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:\/\/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><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-5001128073855040\"\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Blog horizontal --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5001128073855040\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"1685480124\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/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 (20\/07\/25)\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2025-07-20T12:45:29+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT2M54S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"\n\nHere\u2019s the latest news from the world of Omniglot.\n\nNew phonetic script: Vniverall  (Universal) Alphabet, which was created by Thomas Harriot in the 1580s as a way to write the Carolina Algonquian language.\n\n\n\nNew constructed script: Ranting Mualan...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news200725.mp3\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"3.1\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4423\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4020-3\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news200725.mp3?_=3\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news200725.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news200725.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\/news200725.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?powerpress_pinw=4020-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_omniglot\/www.omniglot.com\/news\/news200725.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"news200725.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>Here\u2019s the latest news from the world of Omniglot. New phonetic script: Vniverall (Universal) Alphabet, which was created by Thomas Harriot in the 1580s as a way to write the Carolina Algonquian language. New constructed script: Ranting Mualang, which was created by Reza Sumanda as is a way to write Mualang, a Ibanic language spoken [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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-4020","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\/4020","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4020"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4023,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4020\/revisions\/4023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}