Linguistic Expertise

GeoData's experts have native knowledge in over twenty languages and more than twenty dialects covering all the world's geographic regions. Examples of our language expertise include Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Farsi, Pashtu, Urdu, Hebrew, Korean, Vietnamese, Spanish, Greek, Armenian, Russian, Ukrainian, French, Italian, Slavic, Germanic and Scandinavian languages. All of our projects have been completed for NGA in accordance with the rules and regulations of the US Board on Geographic Names (BGN) Romanization Systems for all of the languages involved. In addition, in conjunction with our work for NGA, we worked with the NGA Library on romanization/translation and cataloguing of foreign native source material.

It is also important to point out that most of our linguists are expert language instructors, and they routinely provide intensive training to their colleagues in order to help them achieve the functional literacy necessary to work on projects involving their native languages. Many of our linguists have extensive experience in teaching languages for several government agencies. This expertise has resulted in GeoData Corporation being approved by the General Services Administration (GSA) for listing on their Language Training Schedule.

There is no country on earth we cannot cover!