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Every culture has a selection of wise sayings that offer advice about how to live your life. The English language is littered with these idioms and many of them are used by thousands of English speakers daily.

Noam Chomsky, the world-renowned political activist, has accused the Turkish newspaper Yeni Safak of fabricating parts of a recent interview with him.

A recently published study by the University of Liverpool has found that the same brain activity is used for language production and making complex tools. Consequently, the findings support the theory that they evolved at the same time.

A unique soap opera written in the Mayan language has aired on TV in Mexico. The show, called Baktun, is the first telenovela entirely in the Mayan language.

China's ruling Communist Party have stated that more than 400 million Chinese citizens are unable to speak the national language – Mandarin

Standard English started as a regional dialect that developed in the southeast of England.

With the Rupee depreciating over 20% in the last eight months, Indian car manufacturers have adopted aggressive localisation to increase sales.

Swansea Council officials responsible for tremendous translation blunder on Welsh road sign.

For more than a decade, computer scientists and linguists have attempted to get computers to learn human languages by programming semantics using software. Semantics is the study of meaning, i.e. the relation between words and phrases.

Google Africa has approached volunteers to request that they judge the quality of beta translations in African languages including Zulu, Igbo, Somali and Yoruba.

Are technology companies actually helping to save endangered languages?

Google has introduced native translations for Google+ accounts previously only possible using the Google Translate for Google+ Chrome extension which was released in 2011.

Firefox, the popular web browser from the Mozilla Foundation, has been released with Tamil language support.

It is peculiar how few words of Chinese origin can be found in English. Why is that?

The local government of Karnataka, a state in south west India bordering Goa and Kerala, is campaigning for the local language of Tulu to be recognised as an official language.

Non-human subtitle software is bound to fail from time to time when trying to identify unfamiliar words or words spoken in a heavy accent.

TranslateMedia is pleased to announce that it has been featured as a leading language services provider in the latest Forrester Report.

Are fan translations (translation of media, mostly computer games, films, books and music, from one language to another) ethical?

Google Real-time Spoken Language Translator in Development. Google has confirmed that it is working on a real-time spoken language translator.

20 Language and Literature Terms We All Should Know. We came across these language and literature terms and thought that they were worth sharing.