Biate (Assam & Mizoram)
About
Biate is small but rich — barely 25,000 speakers, but the language carries centuries of oral storytelling. I met a Biate elder in Dima Hasao, and what started as a “hello” turned into a 40-minute folklore session about a talking tiger and a cursed bamboo grove.
Some common words:
Ka di mai? → “How are you?”
Ka Biate bu → “I am Biate.”
Puar → “Friend.”
Biate conversations move slowly, deliberately, like people are savoring each word. But the singing — oh man. Traditional Biate songs stretch vowels beautifully, and lyrics slip into casual talk without warning. Someone might quote a line mid-conversation and everyone nods like it’s normal.
Food sneaks in constantly — saum (fermented soybeans), zawngtah (bamboo shoot curry), and zu (rice beer) are everyday topics. At the Nulding Kut festival, food and language flow together — elders bless the harvest, kids yell slang, and someone inevitably hands you a drink you didn’t ask for. Say yes. Always yes.
About Enuncia Global
Enuncia Global is… well, I guess the simplest way to put it is we’re in the business of languages. Not just translation in the boring dictionary sense, but kind of making communication smoother between people who otherwise would stare blankly at each other. We do translations, voice overs, subtitles, all that. Sometimes it feels like we’re everywhere—legal docs one day, video game dialogues the next, and then suddenly some corporate brochure that has to sound “professional but not robotic.”
I think what makes Enuncia Global different (and I don’t want to sound like a cliché company profile here, but still) is that it’s not only about throwing words from one language to another. We actually care about tone, style, culture… because honestly, what’s the point of translating if you lose the feel of it? Like, imagine a joke translated literally—it just dies, right? We try to keep that soul alive.
We’ve got a team that’s oddly diverse. Some are language nerds, some are techies who enjoy making websites and SEO stuff work, and then there are project managers who somehow manage to keep everyone from losing their minds. Not easy.
At the end of the day, it’s about trust. Clients give us sensitive stuff—sometimes personal, sometimes business secrets—and we deliver, quietly, without fuss. Maybe that’s why people stick with us. Anyway, that’s Enuncia Global in short.