I have always thought the learning of a language as the discovery of a treasure chest. Break that lock and you’ll have free access to a whole culture, as it is true that the history of a country, its social compound and any intimate or psychological matter that affects people finds it voice through a […]
A school of fish observe with awe the bubbles spew out of a creature with great dorsal protrusions and finned feet. A look behind the plasticized eye lids and the culprit is revealed, a human being at the lowest depths of the ocean! Similarly, a formation of birds choke with surprise; a palm tree is […]
Alpha Omega Translations (AOT) has been working for more than fourteen years on issues of security throughout the world. AOT continues to be the key translator for several programs and centers within the United States Department of Defense (DOD). Some programs educate key leaders on the latest intelligence in security and defense. Others support the […]
As stated in a previous article, Region Change Through Word Exchange: The Need for Translation in Africa, people who work as African translators tend to hold advanced degrees, speak multiple languages and have knowledge of a wide range of subjects. To get a bit more personal and local flavor, we interviewed several Alpha Omega […]
Sango (or Sangho) is the official language of the Central African Republic with approximately 1.6 million second-language speakers and over 400,000 native speakers. But while Sango is spoken from Bangui (the capital of CAR) to trading posts in southern Chad, there is still much debate regarding the origins and development of this language. Is Sango […]
The following is a summary of the online article “Africa Rising” that appeared in The Economist on December 3, 2011. Despite Africa’s long history of corruption, violence, famine and disease, the continent is on the economic rise. As discussed in the previous article “Region Change Through Word Exchange,” over the past decade six of the […]
Africa is home to roughly 10% of the world’s population and, according to a recent United Nations report, contains 10 of the world’s fastest-growing economies. This large, fast developing region, however, is still highly fragmented: • There are 2,000 spoken languages within Africa. (Nigeria alone has more than 500.) • The media use at least […]
The African territory is characterized by the widest variety of spoken languages in the world. Due to the overlapping and the coexistence of so many idioms any classification may appear somehow absurd; nonetheless, linguists, forcing limits of nature, have elaborated a broad categorization and have divided African Languages in three main branches: the first is […]
