Where Is Amharic Spoken?
The Semitic languages are Afro-Asiatic languages that took the name “Semitic” from the Biblical Shem, the son of Noah. The Semitic languages most widely spoken
April 26, 2012
Grammars: where Linguistics meets Computer Science
Noam Chomsky is a celebrity in many fields. Some translators get surprised when I mention that he is also well known in Computer Science. He
April 25, 2012
What Is an OCR Software?
An OCR software program is any computer tool or program that performs Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and is normally used in translation agencies for converting
April 5, 2012
Sinhalese, Singhalese or Sinhala?
Sinhala is the officially recognized language in Sri Lanka, along with Tamil. Also known as Sinhalese and previously as Singhalese, it is the language of
March 30, 2012
Some Helpful Tips to Translate PDF Files
The process of translating MS Office documents or web pages with Trados or other CAT Tools is excellent, but many of the documents we receive
March 20, 2012
What Is the Dzongkha Language?
Dzongkha, or Ngalopkha as it is occasionally known, is the official language of Bhutan. Bhutan is a small landlocked country on the continent of Asia.
March 19, 2012
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,
March 16, 2012
Macedonian, Bulgarian, or Serbian…
Macedonian is not the same language as Bulgarian or Serbian… Macedonian is a language belonging to the group of South Slavic languages, which includes Bulgarian,
February 21, 2012
Linguistic Pre-edition
Pre-edition, as we have seen in other posts, may include several procedures: a text can be pre-edited both from the point of view of the
February 20, 2012
Literary Translations
Now that machine translation is becoming more and more prominent in the world of translation, I would highlight the complexities of the translation of literary
February 14, 2012
Planning Large Projects
Translating a paragraph of 100 words might take 10 minutes or half an hour, depending on the complexity of the text. Following the same logic,
February 6, 2012
Belarusian or Russian?
Belarusian and Russian are two Slavic languages that, though they share the same root, are very different from each other. Belarusian is the official language
February 2, 2012
