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Happy European Day of Languages!

By On September 26, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Do you know what day it is today?

Today is the official European Day of Languages.

This year’s theme is “talk to me.”

Here’s the official Web site.

The Web site offers some nifty downloads, such as this visual that features the theme translated into a number of languages:

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Losing our languages

By On September 24, 2007 · Leave a Comment

I often point to Web sites like Google and Wikipedia as great examples of multilingual Web sites.

Google supports more than 120 languages and Wikipedia supports more than 150. Few other companies come close to supporting that many languages.

And yet there are thousands of languages in existence on this planet, most of which are [...]

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The Hottest Translated Languages, According to SDL

By On September 16, 2007 · Leave a Comment

SDL today released its “World Language League Table” which lists the languages that SDL has been most frequently translating.

The company says it translates more than a billion words each year into more than 150 languages.

Here are then 10 most-popular languages this year:

1. Canadian French
2. Spanish
3. French
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Live Earth.org: From English to Zulu

By On July 6, 2007 · Leave a Comment

I visited the Live Earth Web site today and was pleased to see that the site supports eight languages, including Chinese, Turkish, and Zulu. It appears that the languages were selected to be relevant to the locations of the concerts.

There’s not much depth to the languages — and some of the links take [...]

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