Animal Language
Most animals communicate with one another through sound, body movements or skin color for alerting about threats or signaling about food sources. These are complex communication mechanisms, but is it language? Animal language is not easy to decipher. And even if there were a dictionary for animal language, would we be able to understand the […]
Translation Perspective
The translation process includes reading text, processing it and then writing it differently, sometimes maintaining the literal form and other times paraphrasing to maintain the meaning of the original text. Content can be translated into another language or even into the same language using other words. Writing down thoughts is also a form of translation. […]
Endangered Languages
Languages enable humans to integrate sounds into voices to express meaning. The creativity of humankind has resulted in the creation of a huge diversity of languages reaching about 7,000 languages. Half of the world’s population speaks about 50 languages and the other half speaks all the other languages with a third of theses languages spoken […]
The Language of Mathematics
A language is a set of symbols through which meaningful messages can be conveyed. A language can be defined as having unique symbols, with unique syntax rules for those symbols, which can be documented through writing and can be used to represent meaning in a specific context. If this is the definition of language, then […]