New York Launches Office of Language Access
New York State officially opened its new Office of Language Access (OCA) on October 3rd in its bid to increase people’s accessibility to the state’s
The Languages That Will Not Auto-Translate
In a steadily globalizing world that’s spinning faster every day, there’s little doubt that auto-translation is here to stay. Despite all the snickering at machine
The Influence of Arabic in Western Languages and Culture
You’d be forgiven for thinking that Arabic is about as far removed from Western languages as you can get. After all, Arabic is spoken in
What Are Pidgin Languages?
A pidgin language is a language based on two or more languages and which has a practical and immediate purpose. It usually arises in diverse
Although It May Not Seem like It… That’s a Language!
As project managers, we are used to receiving requests for translations to and from many languages. The most popular include English, Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese, French
The story behind Haitian Creole
What is Haitian Creole? Before we answer this question, we should clarify what Creole actually is. The term comes from a Portuguese word that means
The Birth of a Language
Some time ago we wrote about code switching, and how this informal phenomenon manifests itself in virtually infinite ways. In that post, we mentioned Spanglish,
Indigenous Translators: Between Language and Politics
America (here including North and South America) is the second largest continent in the world after Asia. It includes no less than 35 sovereign nation-states,
What Does Creole Mean
A “creole” language is defined as a language that developed from the fusion of two cultures. To put it more simply, creole languages are born
The Languages of Africa
Official estimates state that there are 2,000 languages spoken throughout the continent of Africa, which are then broken down into these groups: * Afro-asiatic: these
