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JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit translated into Gaelic for first timeMoray Watson, a professor of Gaelic and translation at the University of Aberdeen, said A’Hobat is now available to order.
as well as Irish and Manx. He said: "Enjoyment of reading is of tremendous importance on many levels when it comes to the esteem and status of a language. "Being able to select from a wide range ...
as well as Manx and Irish. He said: “Enjoyment of reading is of tremendous importance on many levels when it comes to the esteem and status of a language. “Being able to select from a wide ...
Professor Watson is the director of Ionad Eòghainn MhicLachlainn: the National Centre for Gaelic Translation, which exists specifically to support the translation of literature into Gaelic (as well as ...
But even though we cannot decipher the text, it is still possible to analyze the hell out of it. The manuscript has been found to follow Zipf's law, a law that appears to be followed by all known ...
Inuit languages really do have many words for snow, linguists found—and other languages have conceptual specialties, too, ...
A Manx bomb disposal specialist who had been helping to train troops fighting in Ukraine has died. Chris Garrett was severely injured in an incident near Izyum in the east of Ukraine on Tuesday.
Telecom giant SoftBank Corp. is working with the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo to fine-tune an app called SureTalk that converts sign language gestures into text. When a person ...
Humans are the only species on Earth known to use language. They do this by combining sounds into words and words into ...
The 2021 Census showed about 2,200 people out of 84,069 living on the Isle of Man were able to speak, read or write Manx language. In January, it was reported that around 107,000 people speak ...
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