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January 22, 2018
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What Foreign Businesses Should Know About the Balkan Market

The World Bank recently ranked the Balkans, i.e. Kosovo, Bulgaria, Serbia, Romania, and Macedonia amongst the top 50 countries to do business in their Business Report of the World Bank 2018. Amongst these countries, Macedonia is ranked 11th which is the highest amongst 190 global economies in terms of quality and ease of doing business. But what […]

Regional Languages of Europe

Though estimations vary but there are around 225 indigenous European languages spoken in Europe today. However, out of the estimated 225, only five languages are spoken by the majority of Europeans. English, Russian, Italian, French and German are the most widely spoken European languages. Though many countries on the continent operate with several different languages. […]

September 29, 2017
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Culture of India

The All World Gayatri Pariwar (AWGP) terms the culture of India as the first supreme culture of the world. While that statement is arguably audacious, research and a significant body of evidence show that the culture is in fact over 4,500 years old making it one of the world’s oldest civilizations. India was one out […]

Slavic Languages & Cultures

Slavic Languages have evolved over the period of what’s estimated by many experts as over two thousand years. Much of what is labeled as Eastern Europe and Russia today was and is home to Slavic Languages. Slavic languages consist of primarily Russian, Belorussian, Ukrainian in the East, with Slovak, Polish and Czech in the West, […]

Portugal Portuguese vs. Brazilian Portuguese

Portuguese is ranked as the fifth most spoken language internationally. So, the assumption that many make is that it’s spoken in only Brazil or Portugal is incorrect. Portuguese is spoken by Brazilians, and the people of Mozambique, Sao Tome, Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, etc. In East Timor’s Tetum region and Macau, it’s the co-official language […]

Filipino, Tagalog or English?

The Philippines is a rich and vibrant country home to 180 languages. Though the 1987 Constitution states that the official language is Filipino, with English and Tagalog being designated as official languages. But that has done little to discourage the use of other languages in the country. Interestingly Spanish is to be promoted but on […]

Important Facts About The Japanese Writing System

Modern day written Japanese uses a combination of two types of characters. The first is called logographic kanji which has mainly been adopted from Chinese characters and the other is syllabic kana. Kana consists of syllabaries used for grammatical elements and native Japanese words while katakana is used for emphasis. All written Japanese is a […]

East Asian languages

The vast majority of East Asian languages are related to many language families. Chinese seems to be one of the most dominant root languages especially across Mainland Southeast Asia owing to the various linguistic features shared amongst them including tone and syllable. Chinese influence comes as no surprise as Chinese culture dominated the area through […]

February 23, 2017
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What Languages Are Really Spoken In America?

The obvious answer to this question is that Americans speak English. However, in America, we speak a dialect of the original English, called American English. That being said British English is a dialect too, even though its considered an original dialect. The English language spoken in various parts of the US varies. The differences are […]

The Indo-European languages

The history of all Indo-European languages stretches back to one single prehistoric root language which was spoken during the Neolithic period. Even though researchers have no written records of this language, aspects of the religion, culture and its people offer some insight into the so-called Proto-Indo-European people. Much about their culture and inherited language can […]

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