Language Spotlight: Navajo, The Endangered Language

Language Spotlight: Navajo, The Endangered Language

This fascinating and complex language currently has between 120,000 and 170,000 speakers. Most of these speakers live on the Navajo Nation reservation and in other areas of New Mexico and Arizona. Navajo is an important heritage language, with a rich history. However,...
Rolling Stone’s Latino Crossover

Rolling Stone’s Latino Crossover

On November 11th earlier this month, Rolling Stone Magazine introduced its first Spanish language section into its pages focusing on Latino music and culture!1 The back of the issue is a secondary cover featuring the crossover rapper Pitbull. According to the...
Rolling Stone’s Latino Crossover

Language Spotlight: Spanish

Spanish is Avantpage’s most-requested language for translation services, but believe it or not, we have never done a language spotlight on this language before!  This month, we thought we’d take a closer look at this Romance language, spoken by close to 500 million...
Language Spotlight: Armenian

Language Spotlight: Armenian

We’d like to take a closer look at the Armenian language this month, and examine its history, origins and cultural influences. We are definitely seeing more requests for Armenian-English translation, and thought Armenian would be a perfect fit for our August Language...
Language Spotlight: Russian

Language Spotlight: Russian

Russian is a language with a long and varied history, and today, approximately 147 million people speak Russian as their first language, and 113 million speak it as a secondary language. In the United States, large concentrations of Russian speakers make their homes...