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English Translation Services

Traducta ranks among the top translation firms in Canada, providing English translation services to industry-leading and Fortune 500 companies across North America.

English is the 3rd most spoken language in the world in addition to having become the de facto language of international discourse.

It is the most popular second language taught and learned around the world. With such vast global exposure, it is understood why English has been adopted as the European Union's official language of communication, as well as having been adopted by many other world organizations for the same purpose, most notable, it is one of the 6 official languages of the United Nations.

Traducta is specialized in English translation services and has a strong client base in the Montreal translation area, Toronto translation area, and Mississauga translation area as well as for translation in the United States and Canada.

We are trusted by business professionals and industry leading organizations to provide them with the accurate, flawless and detail-oriented translations that effectively communicate their message to their target audience.

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English Statistics

Number of words

The Oxford dictionary (2nd Edition - unabridged including obsolete words) contains roughly 600,000 whereas the Webster's Third New International Dictionary contains approximately 475,000.

It is therefore safe to assume that the English language in its current state yields 475,000-600,000 words with approximately 25,000 new additions every year.

Speakers

Approximately 328,000,000 - 350,000,000 Native Speakers

Approximately 508,000,000 speakers including English as a second language

English Alphabet (printed)

The modern English alphabet is a Latin-based alphabet consisting of 26 letters.

Uppercase or Capital letter

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

S

T

U

V

W

X

Y

Z

Lowercase or small letter

a

b

c

d

e

f

g

h

i

j

k

l

m

n

o

p

q

r

s

t

u

v

w

x

y

z

*There are a number of diagraphs used in English but are not considered part of the official alphabet.

An interesting fact is that unlike most other Germanic languages, English uses almost zero diacritics except in loanwords.

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Technical Information

Character Table

As mentioned in the section "English Alphabet", English uses few diacritics (otherwise accented characters). Below you will find a reference table for your convenience.

É é

Uppercase: ALT+0201 lowercase: ALT+0233

É É

Encoding (Web)

ISO 10646, ISO 8879, ISO 8859-1 (also referred to as "Latin-1") are the most common and usable for most Western European languages, including English.

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