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Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa and one of the most linguistically diverse countries in the world. With approximately 240 million people and 525 living languages, it packs more linguistic complexity into a single national boundary than most regions manage across entire continents. Understanding Nigeria's languages (who speaks what, where, and why) is essential for anyone doing business, development work, translation, or cultural research in West Africa.

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Would you like to learn Portuguese? Whether you are planning a trip to Portugal, exploring opportunities in the Brazilian market (the tenth-largest economy in the world by nominal GDP) or building a career in translation, Portuguese is one of the most rewarding language investments an English speaker can make. It is a Category I language according to the US Foreign Service Institute, achievable to professional working proficiency in 600–750 hours of study, and it opens access to approximately 264 million speakers across five continents.

CATEGORY / Translation news

The word translate derives from the Latin translatum, to carry across. For at least 4,000 years, human beings have been carrying meaning across the barriers of language: copying the Epic of Gilgamesh from Akkadian to other tongues around 2000 BC, decoding the Rosetta Stone's three scripts, debating whether to render Scripture word-for-word or sense-for-sense, and now building neural networks that translate 100 billion words a day. Every era of human history has left its mark on translation, and translation has left its mark on every era of human history.

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y-hay ere-thay! (That's "Hey there!" in Pig Latin.) Pig Latin is a word game — a playful transformation of English that moves consonants, adds suffixes, and produces something that sounds vaguely foreign to anyone who doesn't know the code. It has been entertaining children and baffling eavesdroppers for well over a century, and it turns out almost every language in the world has its own version of the same idea.

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The world's approximately 7,000 languages share certain structural features — all of them have nouns, all have ways of combining words into sentences, all distinguish between statements and questions. But beyond these universals, the variation is extraordinary. Some languages use sounds that no other language in the world uses. Some have verb systems of such complexity that a single verb form can carry information that would take a paragraph to express in English. Some are spoken by fewer people than attend a large dinner party. This article looks at seven of the most structurally remarkable languages on Earth, and what each one reveals about the outer limits of how human language can work.

CATEGORY / Freelancing

Language is endlessly playful, and nowhere is that clearer than in a well-crafted riddle. The best language riddles expose the strange logic hiding inside everyday words: the palindromes, the silent letters, the letters that stand for numbers, the words that contain their own contradictions. At Tomedes, working with language professionally means noticing the architecture underneath familiar words — and these riddles reward exactly that kind of noticing.

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Malaysia provides a fascinating study from a language perspective. The official Malaysian language, Malay, represents one of 137 living languages spoken in the country today — 41 of which are found in Peninsular Malaysia, and the rest in Malaysian Borneo. Most are native to Malaysia; some, like English, Mandarin, and Tamil, arrived with immigrants and colonial settlement.

CATEGORY / Translation services

Compare translation pricing models (per word, hourly, flat rate, and MTPE) so you can evaluate quotes, avoid hidden costs, and choose the right model for your project.

CATEGORY / Languages

Portuguese is spoken by 99% of Brazil's population, but the country is home to 295 indigenous languages and significant communities speaking German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish. Here is a complete guide to Brazil's languages.

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.