The Romance languages descend from Vulgar Latin, the language of ancient Rome. Nowadays the four most widely spoken Romance languages are Spanish (c. 320 million native), Portuguese (c. 180 million native), French (c. 125 million [...]

Professor of translation at Hong Kong Baptist University, Tan Zaixi claims that "the Chinese tradition of translation is an 'externally-oriented' tradition, whereas in the West there is a more 'internally-oriented' one". Traditionally, Chinese translation theories [...]

Endangered languages don't seem as self-evidently valuable as say, endangered species are to the functioning of a healthy ecosystem. As the famous example goes, Eskimo have numerous words to describe what in English would simply [...]