{"id":4273,"date":"2025-12-21T13:28:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T13:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=4273"},"modified":"2025-12-21T13:28:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T13:28:25","slug":"omniglot-news-21-12-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=4273","title":{"rendered":"Omniglot News (21\/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\/yambeta.htm\">Yambeta<\/a> (Yamb\u025bta), a West Mbam language spoken in the Centre Region in southwestern Cameroon.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/bunu.htm\">Bunu<\/a> (Buod Nuox), a West Hmongic language spoken mainly in Guangxi Province in southern China.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/kimmun.htm\">Kim Mun<\/a>, a Mienic language spoken in southern China, and northern Vietnam, Laos and Thailand.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/phuthi.htm\">Phuthi<\/a> (S\u00edph\u00f9th\u00ec), a Bantu language spoken in southern Lesotho and in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/ngwe.htm\">Ngwe<\/a> (\u014aw\u025bh), a Bamileke language spoken in Labialem Department in the Southwest Region of Cameroon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New numbers page: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/numbers\/ngwe.htm\">Ngwe<\/a> (\u014aw\u025bh), a Bamileke language spoken in Labialem Department in the Southwest Region of Cameroon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the Omniglot blog this week there\u2019s a new post entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=24400\">Godfathering<\/a> about trying to explain the concept of a godfather in Chinese.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a new Adventure in Etymology entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=4267\">Absurdity<\/a>, which investigates the nonsensical origins of the word <strong>absurd<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a new post entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/celtiadur\/2025\/12\/17\/shields\/\">Shields<\/a> on the Celtiadur blog about words for <strong>shield<\/strong> and related things in Celtic languages.<\/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>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><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: Yambeta (Yamb\u025bta), a West Mbam language spoken in the Centre Region in southwestern Cameroon. Bunu (Buod Nuox), a West Hmongic language spoken mainly in Guangxi Province in southern China. Kim Mun, a Mienic language spoken in southern China, and northern Vietnam, Laos and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,4,108],"tags":[9,160,88],"class_list":["post-4273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-news","tag-language","tag-news","tag-omniglot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273","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=4273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4274,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273\/revisions\/4274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}