{"id":4276,"date":"2025-12-28T01:58:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T01:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=4276"},"modified":"2026-01-03T04:52:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T04:52:19","slug":"omniglot-news-28-12-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/?p=4276","title":{"rendered":"Omniglot News (28\/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\/yonggom.htm\">Yonggom<\/a> (Yongkom), a Lowland Ok language spoken in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/enlhet.htm\">Enlhet<\/a>, a Mascoian language spoken in the Presidente Hayes Department of Paraguay.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/indi.htm\">Indi<\/a> (Mag-Indi), a Sambalic language spoken in the Central Luzon region of the Philippines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New adapted script: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/writing\/dinearabiligii.htm\">Din\u00e9 Arab\u00ed\u0142\u00edg\u00ed\u00ed<\/a> (\u062f\u06cc\u0646\u0647\u0653\u0652 \u0627\u0631\u0627\u0628\u06cc\u064e\u06b7\u06cc\u0653\u06af\u06cc\u0653\u0651), a way to write Navajo with the Perso-Arabic script devised by Yusuf Abdullah al-Qasri.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/langsamples\/udhr_dinearabiligii.jpg\" width=\"630\" height=\"144\" alt=\"\u0628\u06cc\u0653\u0644\u0627\u0639\u0627\u0634\u062f\u0644\u0627\u0639\u06cc\u0651\uffff\uffff\uffff\uffff\uffff\uffff\u06c6\u062d \u064a\u0650\u0646\u06cc\u0653\u06a9\u0639\u0647\u062d\u06af\u06c6 \u0628\u06cc\u062f\u06cc\u0698\u0686\u06cc\u064d\u062d \u062f\u06c6\u0651\u0653 \u0627\u062d\u0647\u0651\u06b7\u062a\u0639\u0647\u0651\u06af\u06c6 \u06cc\u0653\u0644\u06cc\u0651\u0653\u064d\u06af\u06c6 \u0628\u0647\u0651 \u0628\u0627\u0651\u062d\u06c6\u0653\u0686\u06cc\u064d\u0639. \u0647\u06cc\u0653\u0651 \u062d\u0627\u0653\u0646\u06cc\u0653\u0639 \u062f\u06c6\u0653\u0651 \u0639\u0627\u0653\u0646\u06cc\u0653\u062a\u0634\u0627\u06a9\u0647\u0651\u0633 \u062d\u0648\u06cc\u0651\u062d\u062f\u0627\u0651\u0633\u064a\u0650\u0639 \u0647\u06cc\u0653\u064c \u0628\u0646\u0627\u062d\u062c\u06cc\u064d\u0653\u0639 \u0627\u062d\u06cc\u062f\u06cc\u0646\u06cc\u0653\u06b7\u0646\u0627\u0653\u062d\u06af\u06c6 \u0627\u0653\u0644\u06cc\u0653\u0644\u06d5\u0651\u06a9\u0639\u06d5\u062d\u06af\u06c6 \u06a9\u0639\u0647\u0653 \u0628\u0647\u0651 \u0627\u062d\u06cc\u06b7 \u0646\u06cc\u0651\u062f\u0644\u06cc\u064d\u0653.\" title=\"Sample text in Din\u00e9 Arab\u00ed\u0142\u00edg\u00ed\u00ed\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the Omniglot blog this week there\u2019s a new post entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=24409\">Beware your shoes!<\/a> about some signs I spotted recently that have been translated in interesting ways.<\/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\/26\/splitting-up\/\">Splitting Up<\/a> on the Celtiadur blog about words for <strong>split<\/strong>, <strong>slit<\/strong>, <strong>cleft<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s the latest news from the world of Omniglot. New language pages: Yonggom (Yongkom), a Lowland Ok language spoken in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Enlhet, a Mascoian language spoken in the Presidente Hayes Department of Paraguay. Indi (Mag-Indi), a Sambalic language spoken in the Central Luzon region of the Philippines. New adapted script: Din\u00e9 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,160,88],"class_list":["post-4276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast","tag-language","tag-news","tag-omniglot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276","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=4276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4277,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276\/revisions\/4277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/radio\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}