Tuesday, October 4, 2011

How Translation Is Changing the World

Did you know…
How the world's population is projected by the end of 2011?
Answer: 7 billion!
How many of these individuals have internet access?
Answer: nearly two billion!
How many living human languages exist?
Answer: there are 6,912 known languages!
How many languages the majority of online users (80 percent) speak?
Answer: just ten languages!
How many languages have a writing system?
Answer: only 2,261!
In how many languages Google Search is available today?
Answer: in 136 languages!
Between how many languages the automatic translation tool Google Translate does enable users to translate content?
Answer: between 57 different languages!
If you want to know why translation is so important, what companies like Microsoft and Google are doing to increase the number of languages in which their customers can receive and share information, please click on the link below and read this very interesting article:

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