THE NORWEGIAN LANGUAGE

Norwegian (Norsk) is a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Norway, where it is an official language. Together with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional variants.

OUR NORWEGIAN LINGUISTS
We have an extensive network of Norwegian freelance linguists who are all experienced and qualified linguists. Every freelancer who works for us must adhere to a strict code of conduct, which regulates expected quality levels and ensures confidentiality.

THE PERSIAN LANGUAGE

Persian is an Indo-European language spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan. Persian and its varieties have official-language status in Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan. There are approximately 72 million native speakers of Persian in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan and about the same number of people in other parts of the world speak Persian. UNESCO was asked to select Persian as one of its languages in 2006.

THE POLISH LANGUAGE

Polish (język polski, polszczyzna) is spoken by most of the 38 million inhabitants of Poland and is the most spoken West Slavic language. There are also native speakers of Polish in western Belarus and Ukraine, as well as in eastern Lithuania, southeastern Latvia, northern Romania, and the northeastern part of Czech Republic.

THE PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE

Portuguese (português  or língua portuguesa) is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia (Spain) and northern Portugal from the Latin spoken by romanised Pre-Roman peoples of the Iberian Peninsula (namely the Gallaeci, the Lusitanians, the Celtici and the Conii) about 2000 years ago.

Today it is one of the world's major languages, ranked 4th according to number of native speakers (approximately 250 million). It is the language with the largest number of speakers in South America, spoken by nearly all of Brazil's approximately 186 million population, which amounts to over 51% of the continent's population even though it is the only Portuguese-speaking nation in the Americas.

Some interesting language facts

• Researchers at the MIT in America have concluded after lengthy study that in actual fact shouting louder does enhance the understanding process which obviously explains why we raise our voices when we wish "a foreigner" to understand us when we speak, or rather, shout at them in English.

• There are more than 5000 languages today however it is said that there will only be 2000 by the next decade. A recent survey showed that currently at least one language dies every two weeks.

• At present over 80% of the population speak under 8% of the world's languages.

• English is the most widely used official language with 1,750 million speakers worldwide. Chinese, Hindi and Spanish are second, third and fourth respectively. The debate as to the world's rarest language is highly contentious. However, as a contender Cornish must be in the reckoning with little more than 10 known fluent speakers.

• In an historic meeting in the USA, in the eighteenth century the senators of the then existent states of America gathered to vote on whether English or German be the national language of the country. The resolution to go for English was carried by one vote!
Spanish is now the foremost language in parts of Florida, and many public notices including road signs are printed in both English and Spanish. Recently the people of Florida were asked to vote on whether Spanish should be adopted as the language of the state. English won, being carried by a comfortable majority.