{"id":4251,"date":"2025-12-07T08:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T08:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=4251"},"modified":"2025-12-07T08:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T08:07:10","slug":"omniglot-news-07-12-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=4251","title":{"rendered":"Omniglot News (07\/12\/25)"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\/ngaka.htm\">Nga\u02bcka<\/a> (Munga\u02bcka), a Grassfields language spoken in Bali Nyonga, a town in the Nortwest Region of Cameroon.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/ngiemboon.htm\">Ngiemboon<\/a> (Ngiemb\u0254\u0254n), a Grassfields language spoken in Bali Nyonga, a town in the Nortwest Region of Cameroon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This week there\u2019s a new blog post entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=24385\">No Fierce Action<\/a> about some questionably translated text I\u2019ve spotted here.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a new post entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2025\/12\/07\/telling-tales\/\">Telling Tales<\/a> on the Celtiadur blog about words for <strong>story<\/strong>, <strong>tale<\/strong>, <strong>news<\/strong> etc in Celtic languages.<\/p>\n<p>Improved page: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/phrases\/mandarin.php\">Mandarin phrases<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/photos\/starlake.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"\u661f\u6e56 \/ Star Lake\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This week my adventures in Zhaoqing (\u8087\u5e86) took me to the big lake in the centre of the city, known as Star Lake in English, or \u661f\u6e56 (x\u012bngh\u00fa) in Chinese. You can take boat trips around it, and there are quite a few islands to visit, some of which have temples on them. If you go to one of the caf\u00e9s or restaurants overlooking the lake, be prepared for much higher prices than elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/photos\/starlake2.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"\u661f\u6e56 \/ Star Lake\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I also went to the Guangdong Business and Technology University (\u5e7f\u4e1c\u5de5\u5546\u804c\u4e1a\u6280\u672f\u5927\u5b66), a private university not far from here with some rather elaborate architecture.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/photos\/privateuni.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"Guangdong Business and Technology University \/ \u5e7f\u4e1c\u5de5\u5546\u804c\u4e1a\u6280\u672f\u5927\u5b66\" \/><\/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=\"https:\/\/ling-app.com\/offer-yearly-subscription\/?affiliateId=omniglot\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/banners\/banner_ling-app.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"79\" alt=\"Language skills in just 10 minutes a day with Ling\" \/><\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s the latest news from the world of Omniglot. New language pages: Nga\u02bcka (Munga\u02bcka), a Grassfields language spoken in Bali Nyonga, a town in the Nortwest Region of Cameroon. Ngiemboon (Ngiemb\u0254\u0254n), a Grassfields language spoken in Bali Nyonga, a town in the Nortwest Region of Cameroon. This week there\u2019s a new blog post entitled No [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,4,108,1,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-news","category-podcast","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251","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=4251"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4256,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4251\/revisions\/4256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}