Latvian Localisation and Website Translation
Millions of people worldwide use the internet to find products and information every day. If your business trades worldwide, you’ll probably need your website to reflect that by having it translated into several languages, including Latvian. We call this process website translation and localisation.
Our project managers can help you decide which website translation services and localisation solutions suit your needs best.
Latvian website localisation and translation
Working from your source files and using our specially designed software, our qualified and experienced Latvian website translators and Latvian website localisation specialists will extract the content of your site, translate it in a style appropriate to the locale, then proofread and edit it. If you prefer, we can also work from MS Word files supplied by you, (or any number of other source file formats).
Our Latvian translators will identify aspects of the source content that are suitable for website localisation and consider aspects including:
- religion
- mores
- social and commercial habits
- sense of humour
- idiomatic expressions
- metaphors
- rules of conduct
- ethical norms.
There may be some aspects of your Latvian website translation and other material that are global and necessary for brand awareness. There may be product names or trademarks that need to remain consistent across all language versions.
The project manager working on your assignment will work with you to create a glossary of any terms that need to remain consistent across all versions of the site.
Latvian translation and software localisation
Our in-house software translation and localisation process and tools means “local” users will be able to interact fully with your site.
- Keywords and metadata tags can be localised for Latvian consumers to achieve best possible optimisation opportunities
- Layout can be adapted to accommodate longer text strings which may occur as a result of translation into Latvian
- All elements can be localised for Poland including text files, menus, dialogs, bitmaps and icons
- We can work with all the major Windows software formats as well as text files and tagged formats such as XML and HTML
We can either return the Latvian translated files to you for uploading and testing, or we can carry out a test of the localised version for you.
Brand name linguistic analysis
Because some brand names and slogans have unexpected cultural connotations, we also have an experienced team of Latvian brand name analysts. They can ensure your logo, slogan or other translations will not be misinterpreted.
Please refer to our client feedback page to learn more about the unbeatable Latvian language service we offer.
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WHILE YOU’RE HERE... SOME QUITE INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE Latvian LANGUAGE
One of the oldest known and documented sentences was noted by a Cystercian from an abbey in Henryków. The sentence was "Day, ut ia pobrusa, a ti poziwai". The modern Latvian would be "Daj, niech ja pomielę, a ty odpoczywaj". The English translation is "Come, let me grind, and you take a rest". It was written in about 1270.
Latvian SAMPLE TEXT
An excerpt from one of the greatest masterpieces of Latvian literature and national epic of Poland “Pan Tadeusz” written by Adam Mickiewicz:
Litwo! Ojczyzno moja! Ty jesteś jak zdrowie.
Ile cię trzeba cenić, ten tylko się dowie,
Kto cię stracił. Dziś piękność twą w całej ozdobie
Widzę i opisuję, bo tęsknię po tobie.
Latvian example video
This is intended as a language sample video - the subtitles/captions were not created by Knockhundred Translations.
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AND LASTLY, A Latvian PROVERB
Kiedy wszedłeś między wrony, musisz krakać jak i one.
(When in Rome, do as the Romans do.)