Tuesday, April 24, 2018

idioma @ the 29th Design Engineering & Manufacturing Solutions Expo (DMS) in Tokyo

第29回設計・製造ソリューション展に出展します」




2018620日から22日まで、東京ビッグサイトにて開催される第29回 設計・製造ソリューション展に昨年に引き続き出展いたします。
同展は日本最大の製造業向けITソリューションの専門展として大変な注目を集めております。
前回では同時開催展を含め約2,400社の出展があり、来場者数は3日間で合計88,000人以上を記録しました。今年もさらなる盛況が見込まれています。

私どものブースでは、弊社の各種翻訳サービスを中心に、技術翻訳に関しての最新トレンドや、昨年新たに取得した機械翻訳のポストエデイットに関する規格ISO 18587を含む3つの国際規格への準拠の取り組みなどをご紹介する予定です。

なお、当展示会のご来場には招待券が必要となります。
ご希望の方はsales@idioma.comまでお気軽にお問い合わせください。

ご多用中の折とは存じますが、皆様のご来場を心よりお待ちしております。

開催概要
日本 ものづくり ワールド2018
29回 設計・製造ソリューション展
弊社ブース番号:東3ホール26-40
会期:2018620()622() 10:00~18:00(最終日のみ~17:00)
会場:東京ビッグサイト
http://www.dms-tokyo.jp/ja/


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idioma will exhibit at the 29th Design Engineering & Manufacturing Solutions Expo (DMS) in Tokyo from Wednesday June 20th to Friday June 22nd.



DMS is Japan’s largest exhibition gathering all kinds of IT solution providers and attracting professionals looking to buy IT solutions for their business. This year, the number of exhibitors is expected to reach 2,600.

At our booth we are planning to exhibit our various translation services, latest trends in technical translation, and introduce our 3 international standards including ISO 18587 on post-editing of machine translation which was newly acquired last year.

If you plan to visit this exciting event, please feel free to contact us in advance at sales@idioma.com to receive your entrance ticket.

Exhibition details

Held inside Manufacturing World Japan 2018
Our booth: E26-40
Dates: June 20th (Wed) – 22nd(Fri), 2018 10:00 – 18:00 (last day until 17:00)
Venue: Tokyo Big Sight
http://www.dms-tokyo.jp/en/Home/


We are looking forward to seeing you!








Monday, January 8, 2018

Language facts: Finnish

Finnish is a member of the Finno-Ugric language family (Uralic languages) and is closely related to Estonian and Saami (also known as Lapp). It is one of the two official languages in Finland (the other being Swedish) as well as one of the official EU languages. Additionally, it is used by Finnish-speaking minorities in Sweden and Estonia. The majority (more than 90%) of Finland’s population speaks Finnish, while the remainder speaks Swedish and Sami. Overall, Finnish is spoken by a little more than 5 million people.
Thanks to the existence of Nordic Language Convention, Finnish-speaking citizens can interact with governments and official bodies in other Nordic countries in their native language.

Helsinki - the Capital of Finland
Source: AdobeStock.com

A language with a few relatives but many phonemes

Finnish is related also to some other of the few Uralic languages (such as Hungarian for example) in many aspects, including shared morphology, similar grammar, as well as basic vocabulary. The origin of Uralic languages is not entirely clear even today, but the most widely accepted theory is that this branch originated in the boreal forests around the Ural mountains and around the middle Volga river. Actually, Uralic languages, such as Finnish, are believed to be the proto-language of the area.

The Finnish language gained its official status no sooner than in 1863, after the rise of the Finnish nationalistic movement. The first Finnish writing system was, however, created already in the 16th century by a Finnish bishop Mikael Agricola, who wanted to translate the Bible, and thus needed to standardize the Finnish dialects into a comprehensive system. He failed to do so, as he wasn't able to unify the signs with different phonemes (the intent was for each phoneme to have a corresponding one letter). Later, Finnish actually lost several phonemes from the standardized language due to this unification.



Alphabet

In the Finnish alphabet, 'Å’ is carried over from the Swedish alphabet and is redundant in Finnish; it is merely retained for writing Finland-Swedish proper names. 
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V X Y Z Å Ä Ö

a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v x y z å ä ö