Translating the Untranslatable
No matter how fluent the translator, some concepts or words are always going to be difficult or even almost impossible to translate directly between languages. Because of the way languages develop, some concepts can only be clearly expressed by either an awkward...
Professional Translations Can Save Money – Or Even the World
Language is nuanced, complex and uniquely human. In order to render text or speech from one language to the next, nothing can beat a professional human translation for accuracy. And, even for seemingly simple things, whether something is accurately translated or not...
What are Genderless Languages?
A genderless language is one with no grammatical gender distinctions, and therefore doesn’t apply categories like male and female to nouns, articles, adjectives or verbs. Many organic and constructed languages are genderless or partially genderless, and a variety are...
Endangered Languages: An Introduction
A language is considered ‘dead’ when it has no fluent native speakers remaining, and extinct when no complete records of it remain. Languages have died off or changed beyond recognition throughout history, but in the past 200 years this process has rapidly...
A History of the Danish Language
Danish is one of the many Germanic languages of the Indo-European language family, a descendant of Old Norse and one of the (more or less) mutually intelligible languages of Scandinavia. Although only spoken in Denmark, the Faroe Islands and parts of Iceland and...
The Scandinavian Languages – All the Same?
Languages grow like trees, forking and branching from common roots and blossoming into what we perceive as “different languages” as they develop. Occasionally separate languages develop and end up, although deemed different languages by law and culture, far more...
A History of the Polish Language
Polish began to emerge as a distinct language around the 10th century, as the Polish state was established by Mieszko I, the ruler of the Polans tribe
Constructed Languages
While they might seem irrelevant to the world of commercial translation, constructed languages have a number of benefits beyond adding detail to what is still a fantasy world. Between international languages designed to ease human communication, experimentation...
An Introduction to Esperanto
International languages One of the great utopian dreams of the 1800s and early 1900s was that of a single unified language, one which would reduce international conflict and facilitate shared trade and understanding among all the peoples of the world. It was an idea...