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Published On - April 6, 2017

Richard Brooks Language BlogTags: History, Languages

What Are the Oldest Living Languages?

Have you ever wondered what the oldest living languages are? That question is harder to answer than it might seem at first. The origins of many languages are lost in time, and it’s hard to say which is the oldest. That said, some languages are older than others. So, let’s take a look at ...

8 Interesting Facts About Ancient Egypt Revealed by Translation

Published On - October 7, 2016

Richard Brooks Language BlogTags: History

8 Interesting Facts About Ancient Egypt Revealed by Translation

Translation helps us understand people from other cultures, even if they vanished thousands of years ago. For example, consider the ancient Egyptians. Until the discovery of the Rosetta Stone allowed ancient Egyptian writing to be translated in 1820, all that we knew of them came from the writings o...

Legal Translation 4 Times It Changed History

Published On - September 25, 2015

Mary Ravenna Language Blog, LegalTags: History

Legal Translation: 4 Times It Changed History

Legal translation is one of the most difficult forms of translation. The stakes are high, as money, lives and freedom hang in the balance. It requires absolute familiarity with both everyday language and legal jargon in both languages, and it’s essential to get it right the first time. For per...

Published On - August 21, 2015

Richard Brooks Chinese, Inside Track, Language BlogTags: Chinese, History

Chinese Language Information

Chinese translation services can help you to produce perfect copy perfectly suited to the Chinese speaking markets, this blog post will help you understand the language in more detail. The Chinese language belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family. More than 1.3 billion people speak Chinese with t...

Published On - July 16, 2015

Richard Brooks Language BlogTags: History

7 Times Translation Changed History

How important is translation in history? History is made when different cultures collide, and the art of translation has played a key behind-the-scenes role in shaping historical events. In fact, here are seven examples of translations that changed the course of history: The Vulgate Bible The Bible ...

Published On - May 7, 2014

Richard Brooks Language BlogTags: BSL, History

London’s First Deaf Church to Close

It’s the end of an era as London’s first church built specifically for deaf worshipers will be closing soon, the BBC reports. St Saviour’s Church opened for services on Oxford street in 1873. 50 years later, it relocated to Acton. According to the London Deaf Church website, the plac...

Published On - December 11, 2013

Richard Kazandjian Language BlogTags: Danish, History, Icelandic, Languages, Nordic, Norwegian, Swedish

What are Nordic Languages?

The Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and Icelandic languages are collectively known as the Nordic languages. Since they are all descended from Old Norse, these languages have a lot in common. In fact, someone who speaks one language can often understand someone who speaks another Nordic language, although...

Published On - December 11, 2012

Richard Brooks Language BlogTags: History

Indo-European Languages

The Tie that Binds East and West Anyone who has studied languages knows that different languages can be surprisingly similar. For example, Spanish and Italian look very much alike on paper-if you know one of the languages, you can almost intuit the meaning of a sentence written in the other language...

Published On - July 11, 2012

Richard Brooks Language BlogTags: History, Language, Welsh

History of the Welsh Language

Modern Welsh dates back to the sixth century. It is very closely related to Cornish and Breton. However, its history goes even further back to 600 years BC, when the early languages of Europe and Central Asia influenced the Celtic languages spoken across the European continent. Most European languag...

Published On - August 4, 2011

Richard Brooks Language BlogTags: Greece, Greek, History, Translation

Ancient Greek Translation

In 1896, students from Oxford University on backpacking trip stumbled upon a rubbish dump in the ancient Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus. To modern archaeologists, the contents were about as far from rubbish as you can possibly get: thousands of pieces of Greek papyri, dating back to the period after A...