by Julia Tuff | Jun 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
Languages are vanishing around the world at an alarming rate; every two weeks a language dies with its last speaker,according to UNESCO. Between 1950 and 2010, 230 languages went extinct and, today, a third of the world’s languages are spoken by fewer than 1000... by Julia Tuff | May 20, 2019 | Asian Language Translators, Uncategorized
令和 Reiwa: what’s behind the name of Japan’s new era and what does the term really mean? The recent abdication of Japan’s emperor, Akihito, made history in more ways than one. Of note, he is the first Japanese emperor to step down in over 200 years. The accession of... by Julia Tuff | Mar 21, 2019 | Sociolinguistics
I MAP OF THE WORLD LANGUAGES Mapa_Lenguas_del_Mundo.png under GFDL created by es:Usuario:Industrius using Image:BlankMap-World.png made by User:Vardion, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2107256 The Earth is home to a huge and... by Julia Tuff | Mar 1, 2019 | Translation Services
Using computers to translate between languages is nothing new. The first public demonstration of a machine translation system took place in 1954. The IBM technology was, understandably, very basic, translating between just 250 words of Russian and English. However, it...