by Alpha Omega Translations | Jun 8, 2015 | Translation Tools
By Sarah-Claire Jordan Computers and endangered languages is probably not the first combination to come to mind when you’re thinking about things that work well together. Using a computer does involve language, and computers have their own languages or “codes” used to...
by Alpha Omega Translations | Jul 11, 2014 | Foreign Language
Estimates may vary, but it is commonly accepted that between 50% and 90% of the world’s ~7,000 languages will disappear by the end of the 21st century without substantial preservation efforts. Many of these languages do not have a written form. On...
by Alpha Omega Translations | Jan 1, 2014 | Foreign Language
Newcomers to the northwestern Arizona highlands are surprised by a smattering of snow that comes to interrupt the usual stifling dryness. Amid this dryness, dozens of Indian bands or scattered tribes are regrouped in reservations. The focus here is the Yavapai “people...
by Alpha Omega Translations | Nov 26, 2013 | Foreign Language
Any image of the Ice Age gives us a wizened earth, barren and stony, abdicated to the powerful and relentless freezing of the poles. A few of these glaciers, silently introduced between high and mighty cliffs where lies modern day Scandinavia, would alter the...
by Alpha Omega Translations | Nov 15, 2013 | Foreign Language
Archipelagos reserve interesting anthropological surprises. One such surprise is the existence of a distinct minority group living in Japan, a society known for its hegemony. They are called Ainu, number around 15,000 and occupy, for the most part, Hokkaido, a...
