Translationby Patrick Del Rosario Nearly every two weeks, a language dies off completely. That’s according to National Geographic Explorer Wade Davis, citing a rather alarming statistic. He also discusses how languages help to shape the way we think and look at the world, and how sad it is that around fifty percent of the languages…

TranslationHot off the heels of a Ukranian team’s sign language translating glove winning Microsoft’s 2012 Imagine Cup, the software giant has unveiled a new language translation hub that will enable users to create entirely customizable translation engines. The Microsoft Translator Hub is capable of being taught the nuances of any language, providing a much-needed resource…

TranslationFacebook may help save dying language Most of the people who spoke the language Arapesh when anthropologist Lise Dobrin conducted field work in Papua New Guinea about 15 years ago have died. Their children no longer speak the language, and their grandchildren have almost no knowledge of their ancestral tongue. But Dobrin, an assistant professor…

TranslationThe following is an opinion piece by by Peter Culshaw, of the Arts Desk Should the dying of languages be one of the 21st century’s big causes? In the past few decades we’ve all learnt to pay at least lip service to ecological matters, and millions of people in this country are members of environmental…