The Need for Audio Description in Indigenous Languages
In a world of digitized media and language tools, ancestral languages are often left behind.
Pi Day reveals origins of pi symbol
Everyone knows about pi, the world’s most famous irrational number. And just as recognizable is the pi symbol: 𝝅. But how did that symbol come to be?
Indigenous Language Hub Faces Funding Crisis: The Vital Need for Urban...
The Victoria Native Friendship Centre (VNFC) in Canada grapples with the sudden loss of crucial funding for its Urban Indigenous Language Hub.
Free Online Event to Highlight the World’s Endangered Scripts
World Endangered Writing Day brings together scholars who study writing with community activists who are trying to revive their cultures.
Literary Translation Awards Go to Translators of Arabic and Vietnamese Works
The American Literary Translators Association announced the winners of the 2023 National Translation Awards in Poetry and Prose, recognizing translators “who have made an outstanding contribution to literature in English.”
Literary Nobel Prize Spotlights Language Preservation
The Swedish Academy has awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature to author Jon Fosse who uses Norway's minority written standard.
From Star Wars to Avatar: The role of language in science...
Interpreters Unlimited, a language service provider headquartered in San Diego, presented a story during Comic-Con 2022 looking at a brief history of foreign languages in comics.
A jar of extra Virgil olive oil, please: Archaeologists discover Virgil...
According to a paper recently published int he Journal of Roman Archaeology, it’s likely the first literary quotation to have been carved into an amphora.
A Global Mosaic: ProZ.com’s pro bono project
Turn on the news and you're soon assailed by woeful tidings of every kind: forests burning, racist police actions, violence against women, endangered species...