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Once upon a time, humans lived in a
relatively confined space on Earth, and they all spoke one language: the mother
tongue of all languages today. That is how this article from Quora explains the
situation we have today. “Everyone could have spoken the same mother tongue,
and things could have stayed that way until now,” it goes on. “But that didn't
happen. In fact, the opposite happened. As humans spread across the globe and
population growth exploded exponentially, so too did the number of languages.
In fact, it's estimated that there were approximately 10,000 languages spoken
only a couple of hundred years ago.”
"There are two reasons for this. The
first is that languages change. The second is that language is identity,”
concluded the article’s author, Marc Ettlinger, PhD in Linguistics from UC
Berkeley.
As I have posted in Facebook shortly after
reading this, a clear consequence of this is a world full of possibilities for
linguists, translators and people who love languages, and a clear market for
them to put their skills into play. The needs that arise from the existence of
10,000 languages in the world are endless, and it is evidently impossible for a
single agency to meet them all. However, offering translation services in more
than 100 languages is already a pretty amazing feat, and that is exactly what
inWhatLanguage does.
103 languages, to be exact, are neatly
listed in alphabetical order on our website, from Afrikaans to Zulu: we have
professional translators, linguists and proofreaders at your disposal in all
those languages. Among them you will naturally find the World’s Top 10
Languages, as estimated in the infographic from Funders and Founders that you can find at the beginning of this post: our Mandarin
translation services are top-notch, as are our services in Hindi, Spanish,
English, Arabic, Portuguese, Bengali, Russian, Japanese and Punjabi. But you
will also discover other languages for which you might have difficulty finding
a reliable, high-quality translation service around: Bushman, Sindhi, Masai,
Tsonga or Xhosa, to name just a few.
And not only that: we offer localized and
specialized services for each of those languages. As a reputable translation
agency with years of experience and an excellent grip on our clients’ needs, we
understand that translations must often be focused on certain areas of
expertise and/or particular regions were a special dialect or variant of a
language is spoken.
If you are in need of translation services,
no matter to or from what language, inWhatLanguage is the way to go. We are
always open to dialog, we carefully assess your requests and offer the best
solutions in the widest range of languages you can ever find.
There might be thousands of languages in
the world, but when it comes to translation, you only need one agency to trust.
inWhatLanguage: all the languages in one great agency.
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