India officially has only 23 recognized languages, but these have given birth to more than 1700 mother tongues that have evolved over time from these different language families. Telugu, one of these 23 official languages is not only the largest spoken Dravidian language, but also the second ... Click to read the article details

Kannada, written using the Kannada script is ranked as the 29th most spoken and the 3rd oldest language in the world after Sanskrit and Tamil. It is one of the major Dravidian (of southern India) languages, spoken by 64 million speakers across the globe in its 20 odd various dialects. There are 55 ... Click to read the article details

The question posed is itself wrong, basically because Urdu as a language is an offspring of Hindi and from India. Urdu and Hindi are still considered by many linguists as the same language. Its further development and evolution in India has been through its enrichment with many loanwords from ... Click to read the article details

Not many people know the fact that Oriya language is also spoken in Surat (Gujarat state), situated across Indian heartland thousands of kilometers from Orrisa, where it is the State language (besides being one of the 28 odd national languages). There are a total of 35 million people across the ... Click to read the article details

The Punjabi language today is spoken by over a 100 million people in India and Pakistan alone. Punjabi, one of the recognized national languages of India is also official language of Punjab State. It is widely used in Delhi and Haryana, where it's the second official language and also in Himachal ... Click to read the article details

Ancient periods depended more on the manual works rather than upon machinery and it reflected on the ancient literatures as well; prints, being more recent a phenomenon, like many other ancient texts, Bengali books also used to be handwritten. A sharp contrast to the run-of-the-mill trend, these ... Click to read the article details

The first step in finding a freelance translation job is to assess your experience and capabilities; simply speaking two or more languages fluently is not enough. To find a job as a freelance translator your curriculum vitae should include:

at least a bachelor's ... Click to read the article details

In every business knowing more then one language is a must. Doing business with Indian clients implies the need for English to Hindi translator. Because of the many spoken languages and dialects in India, because of the culture and, most of all, because of the business protocol, one has to a ... Click to read the article details

Learning foreign languages can be very rewarding these days as there is a lot of demand worldwide for bilinguals. This is more important when you want to get a job in a foreign company. But when it comes to choosing the language they will study most pick to learn Spanish, French or German, which ... Click to read the article details