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Translate Basque to American English

Send source_lang EU and target_lang EN-US and the API returns American English text. Here is what makes this pair different from the others.

Basque

Itzulpen batek pertsonak idatzitakoa bezala irakurri behar du.

American English

A translation should read as if a person wrote it.

Example output produced by the vizvuz Engine and cached — not a hand-written translation.

Basque

Basque is a language isolate unrelated to any other in Europe, with ergative-absolutive alignment and verb forms that agree with up to three arguments at once, so sentence structure has no Indo-European parallel.

Script: Latin · Family: Isolate

The ergative marker attaches to the subject; a sentence template that swaps in a name without the ending is ungrammatical.

American English

English is the shortest of the supported languages in almost every measurement, which is why interfaces designed in English tend to break when translated into anything else.

Script: Latin · Family: West Germanic

British and American spelling, date order and vocabulary differ enough to matter; choose EN-GB or EN-US explicitly instead of bare EN.

Formality in this pair

American English has no formality distinction to switch, so the formality parameter is accepted and ignored.

How the formality parameter works

Ready-made request

curl -X POST https://api.vizvuz.com/v1/translate \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer vz_live_xxxxxxxx" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
        "text": ["…"],
        "source_lang": "EU",
        "target_lang": "EN-US"
      }'

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