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Nordic Translation Services
North Germanic Languages | Translation from/into Nordic Languages | Baltic Media® Nordic Translation Company in the Nordics
Nordic Languages | Danish, Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish Translation Services in the Nordics
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Nordic translation services are companies that specialize in translating and localizing content for the Nordic languages, which include Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, and Icelandic. These services are used by businesses and individuals alike to communicate with customers and partners in the Nordic region.
Nordic translation services typically offer a wide range of services, including:
- Translation of documents, such as contracts, marketing materials, and websites
- Localization of software, apps, and other digital content
- Interpretation services for business meetings, conferences, and other events
- Subtitling and voiceover services for video and audio content
Nordic translation services are typically staffed by native speakers of the Nordic languages, who have a deep understanding of the cultural and linguistic nuances of these languages. This ensures that translations are accurate, fluent, and appropriate for the target audience.
When choosing a Nordic translation service, it is important to consider the following factors:
- The company's experience and expertise in the Nordic languages;
- The company's track record of providing high-quality translations;
- The company's ability to meet your specific needs and deadlines;
- The company's pricing.
Why choose Nordic-Baltic Translation Agency Baltic Media®?
In accordance with the quality policy of Baltic Media®, Nordic translation services required by the client is carried out by a Nordic translator who is a NATIVE speaker of a Nordic language and/or who resides in the Nordics.
For Nordic translation services we employ only professional Nordic translation specialists with a college/university degree in linguistics and/or with experience in Scandinavian translation work with/without specialisation in a specific field.
We have implemented and we work in accordance with the ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System; thus, we have improved the Nordic translation project coordination and Scandinavian translator selection procedure. Baltic Media® has its own Nordic translator testing system. Criteria: linguistic education, at least 5 years of experience in Nordic translation, references from other clients and a Nordic test translation.
Nordic Translation Services | Languages in the Nordics
The Nordic languages are a group of closely related languages spoken in the Nordic countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland, as well as some parts of Greenland. The main languages in this group are Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, and Icelandic.
Danish is spoken by around 6 million people primarily in Denmark, but also in parts of Germany, Greenland, and Canada.
Norwegian is spoken by around 5 million people primarily in Norway, but also in parts of Sweden, Finland and Russia. There are two official written standards for Norwegian - Bokmål and Nynorsk.
Swedish is spoken by around 10 million people primarily in Sweden, but also in parts of Finland and Estonia.
Finnish is spoken by around 5 million people primarily in Finland, but also in some parts of Russia and Sweden.
Icelandic is spoken by around 360,000 people primarily in Iceland.
Despite their differences, these languages share many similarities due to their historical and linguistic connection. Many words, grammar rules, and sounds can be found across all of them.
The Scandinavian or North Germanic languages compose one of the three branches of the Germanic languages, a sub-family of the Indo-European languages, along with the West Germanic languages and the extinct East Germanic languages. The North Germanic languages are sometimes specified as the "Nordic languages” (Danish, Swedish, Norwegian).
In Scandinavia, the term "Scandinavian languages" refers to the languages of the three continental Scandinavian countries as a subgroup of the Nordic languages, leaving aside the insular subgroup of Faroese and Icelandic.
Approximately 20 million people in the Nordic countries speak a Scandinavian language as their native language including an approximately 5% minority in Finland. Languages belonging to the North Germanic language tree are also spoken on Greenland and, by immigrants in North America
One of the mainstays of Nordic co-operation is the ability to understand each other’s language. Danish, Norwegian , and Swedish are so closely related that if you speak one of them, relatively little effort is required to understand the others.
Nordic localization services
Nordic localization services are specialized language services that adapt content, products, and services for the unique linguistic and cultural needs of the Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. This process goes beyond direct translation to ensure the content feels native and relevant to the local audience.
Key Aspects of Nordic Localization
Localization for the Nordic region addresses several distinct challenges and nuances:
- Linguistic Diversity: While Scandinavian languages (Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish) are mutually intelligible to some extent, they are not identical. Finnish and Icelandic are from entirely different language families (Uralic and Old Norse, respectively) and are not mutually intelligible with the Scandinavian languages. Therefore, a separate, native-speaker-led localization is required for each country.
- Cultural Nuances: The Nordic cultures share values like egalitarianism and a direct communication style, but they also have subtle differences in humor, social norms, and business etiquette. A successful localization service understands and adapts content to these specific cultural contexts to build trust and brand loyalty.
- Technical and Practical Adaptation: This includes formatting dates (e.g., DD.MM.YYYY), using the correct currencies (Danish Krone, Swedish Krona, Norwegian Krone, Icelandic Króna, and the Euro in Finland), and adapting local units of measurement. It also involves ensuring content complies with each country's specific legal and regulatory standards, particularly for industries like finance, healthcare, and e-commerce.
Services Offered
Nordic localization companies provide a wide range of services to help businesses enter and succeed in the Nordic market:
- Translation and Transcreation: Beyond standard translation, transcreation is a creative process used for marketing materials, slogans, and ad copy. It adapts the message while preserving its intent, tone, and emotional impact, ensuring it resonates with the local audience.
- Website and Software Localization: This service adapts all digital content, including user interfaces, apps, e-commerce platforms, and websites. It ensures the layout, design, and functionality are culturally appropriate and technically sound.
- Audio-Visual Localization: This includes subtitling, voice-overs, and dubbing for videos, films, and video games. It ensures dialogue is accurately translated and timed to match the on-screen action.
- Technical and Legal Translation: These services focus on highly specialized documents, such as user manuals, technical specifications, legal contracts, and medical reports. They require translators with expertise in both the language and the specific subject matter to ensure accuracy and precision.
- SEO Localization: This service adapts a website's content to rank well in local search engines. It involves researching and using country-specific keywords and search terms that a native speaker would use.
Indo-European Language Tree
In total, 46% of the world's population (3.2 billion) speaks an Indo-European language as a first language, by far the highest of any language family.
Germanic languages, branch of the Indo-European language family. Scholars often divide the Germanic languages into three groups: West Germanic, including English, German, and Netherlandic (Dutch); North Germanic, including Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Faroese; and East Germanic, now extinct, comprising only Gothic and the languages of the Vandals, Burgundians, and a few other tribes.
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Baltic Media® Nordic Translation Services in the Nordics
The Baltic Media® Nordic-Baltic Translation agency is a leading provider of Nordic translation services in Northern Europe specialising in Northern European (incl. Nordic, Baltic, Slavic) languages mostly in translation services from/into Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian, German, English, Polish, Russian, Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian.
As an ISO certified language service provider, the Baltic Media® translation agency offers human translation services for corporate, governmental and private clients.
Certified Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Icelandic, and Danish Translation Services
A great number of our Nordic translators are certified Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Icelandic, Danish translators. This qualification is essential for Nordic translations certified by a notary as well as for interpretation in Court trials.
Nordic Translation Services by Native Nordic Translators
- Each translation of the Nordic languages goes through three stages: translation, editing and proof-reading.
- Nordic translators work with such translation programs as SDL Trados Studio and Memsource, which ensure consistent terminology.
- Data security, storage and confidentiality are our responsibilities. Finished Nordic translations are stored on our servers. If you ever lose your Scandinavian translation, we will find it in our electronic archives.
- Educated, competent and service-oriented Nordic translation project managers who constantly improve their qualifications in Nordic project management.
- Civil liability insurance against any possible Scandinavian translation mistakes — the insurance company will compensate the loss caused to the client. While no such case has ever occurred in the history of the Baltic Media® operation, the insurance serves as an additional guarantee for the client.
- We work globally and have 30 years of international work experience, as our customers and Nordic translators are located on every continent.
- Additional services include layout design for Scandinavian translations and pre-print preparation. When submitting the copy for Scandinavian translation to us, you may choose to receive the layout ready to print. We offer a layout design service (DTP — Desktop Publishing)
Nordic Translation Fields
Legal Nordic translations, machinery and technologies, business, finance, medical Scandinavian translation services, advertising, communications, PR translation services, transport, computer hardware and software, science, agriculture, automotive, European Union documents, legal, government, industrial, life science, retail, Scandinavian technical translations.
Confidential Nordic Translations
We enter into agreements with all of our clients, with particular commitment to the quality of the work, the terms of delivery and to confidentiality.
Terms of Delivery
The services we offer are adaptable to our clients’ requirements. One of the most essential requirements is prompt service. It is also possible to contact us outside working hours. Quality and promptness — these are two of the main reasons we have gained our clients’ trust.
Our Most Commonly Requested Nordic Translations
| English to Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic | French to Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic |
| German to Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic | Spanish to Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic |
| Finnish to Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic | Polish to Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic |
| Czech to Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic | Slovak to Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic |
| Slovenian to Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic | Hungarian to Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic |
| Romanian to Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic | Bulgarian to Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic |
| Latvian to Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic | Lithuanian to Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic |
| Russian to Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic | Estonian to Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic |
| Norwegian to Swedish, Danish, Icelandic | Danish to Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic |
| Icelandic to Swedish, Danish, Norwegian | Ukrainian to Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic |
| Italian to Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic | Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic to Latvian |
| Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic to English | Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic to Russian |
| Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic to French | Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic to German |
| Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic to Lithuanian | Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic to Hungarian |
| Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic to Finnish | Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic to Bulgarian |
| Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic to Estonian | Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic to Ukrainian |
Upon request, we can provide assistance with additional languages. For more specific information, please contact info@balticmedia.com.
Nordic Translation Services
Other than operating with the most commonly used text processing software, for instance, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Apple Pages, desktop publishing (DTP) software Adobe InDesign, QuarkXPress, we also use special translation software such as SDL Trados Studio, Memsource and Wordfast, thus forming clients’ terminology databases.
In addition, we offer text conversion from/to PC and Mac platforms and preparation of PDF and printing proofs.
Our specialists are also experienced in Scandinavian web site and software localisation and translation of subtitles, voice-overs, dubbing of TV programmes, movie trailers, video games, radio programmes and commercials into Nordic languages.
