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CATEGORY / Languages
Migration is any movement of people; immigration specifically means crossing an international border to settle. Here is a complete guide to the differences, types, legal implications, and what immigration means for document translation.
CATEGORY / Translation news
GPT-5 launched on August 7, 2025 with state-of-the-art benchmarks in math, coding, and multimodal reasoning. Here is a full comparison of GPT-3, GPT-4, and GPT-5 — including what each model means for translation.
CATEGORY / Languages
Southeast Asia is home to over 1,200 languages spoken by approximately 676 million people. This guide covers every country's languages, the five major families, updated 2025 speaker figures, and what the region's languages mean for translation.
CATEGORY / Languages
From aglet to petrichor and zarf to psithurism — 30 precise English words for everyday things most people can't name, with the etymologies and cross-language stories behind them.
CATEGORY / Languages
Tomedes CEO Ofer Tirosh on why he built Parley (a daily translation puzzle) and what it revealed about how people actually think about language.
CATEGORY / Translation services
Tomedes has served 120,000+ clients as a professional translation agency for 15 years. Here's the honest story of why we added an AI widget to our homepage, and what it taught us about the future of translation.
CATEGORY / Languages
Spain ruled the Philippines for over 333 years, leaving 4,000+ Spanish loanwords in Tagalog, a living Spanish creole, and cultural traces that still shape Filipino life today.
CATEGORY / Languages
South America is home to over 448 languages across 37 families. This guide covers the most spoken languages, major indigenous tongues, and what the continent's diversity means for translation.
CATEGORY / Languages
Europe is home to over 250 indigenous languages across three main families. This guide covers every major European language, speaker counts, and their global reach.
CATEGORY / Languages
Spain is home to a rich mosaic of ethnic groups, languages, and regional identities. This guide covers every major group, their languages, and what Spain's diversity means in 2026.