The Greek language (or Modern Greek or Hellenic as it is sometimes called) belongs to the Indo-European language family and is the continuity of Ancient Greek. Both languages share almost the same alphabet, grammar, syntax and vocabulary. Latin language and all the Latin-derived languages were influenced by Ancient Greek. Nowadays Greek is spoken by over 17 …

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If you are the lucky one assigned to manage, say, translation of an annual product catalog, and you have never managed any translation project before, don’t panic. Search for translation resources. You could save a lot of effort. Map the suppliers thoroughly. The difference is night and day. Document your company’s language management. Establish a …

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If you are the lucky one assigned to manage, say, translation of an annual product catalog, and you have never managed any translation project before, don’t panic. Search for translation resources. You could save a lot of effort. Map the suppliers thoroughly. The difference is night and day. Document your company’s language management. Establish a …

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  Portuguese is the official language of Portugal and Brazil, a number of African nations, as well as an official EU language. Portuguese is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia (Spain) and northern Portugal. It is derived from the Latin language spoken by the Romanized Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula …

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Greenlandic is a language spoken by the Inuit people in Greenland. The main dialect, Kalaallisut, of Western Greenland belongs to the Eskimo-Aleut family (closely related to other Inuit languages, e.g. in Canada and basically accross the Arctic area). It became the only official language of Greenland when it gained autonomy from Denmark in 2009, after abandoning the …

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