Professional Latvian translations

We do not deal with reference, education certificates, passports, diplomas in the Latvian. Our sphere expands much beyond:

technical Latvian translations:  technical translations of equipment operation manuals, autocad formatted translations of technical diagrams, etc., technical translations of reference materials to various items of equipment, translation of other types of technical documentation from Latvian or into;

legal Latvian translations:  translations of contracts, title certificates, bank documentation, companies’ business plans, different types of agreements and arrangements, search and translation of laws of different countries for the companies extending their business over various regions, translation of court verdicts, arbitration proceedings;

literary Latvian translations: literary translation of books, articles, stories and other types of prose, literary translation of poetry, translation of advertising materials, other texts requiring an artistic and creative approach to be used and any other various matters that could be referred to the literary translations;

medical Latvian translations: translation of medical equipment operation manuals, any type of medical documentation (extracts from case histories, epicrisis, health certificates, examination results, etc.), translation of medical publications, scientific articles in various medical fields, scientific research booklets and protocols, therapeutic drug management instructions, therapeutic drug research and test results;

translations of software and website localisation proceedings from Latvian into Latvian: translation of help-files, translation and support of multilingual websites, translation of computer games.

Services of Latvian translations in our agency are performed by certified professional translators of Latvian language.

We provide Latvian translations for both enterprises, including state organizations, and for private individuals as well.

Written Latvian translations of all types of documentation, including such areas of expertise as technical literature, translation of software and computer games.

Complete confidentiality of our customers is ensured by signing a non-disclosure agreement by every Latvian translator of our agency.

translation from Latvian into Russian or English – 0.07EUR per source word
translation from English or Russian into Latvian – 0.08EUR per source word.
the cost of translation of Latvian and other language pairs is to be negotiated with the translation bureau manager.
Itemized price list

The Russian translation services agency will quite soon recruit a native Latvian translator (or a group) to translate engineering subjects. See our order page and we will feel honor to help.

SOME FACTS ABOUT LATVIAN

The Latvian language, sometimes also referred to as Lettish, is the official state language of the Republic of Latvia. There are about 1.4 million native Latvian speakers in Latvia and about 150,000 abroad.

The Latvian language belongs to the Eastern Baltic sub-group of the Baltic language group in the Indo-European language family, and it is neither Germanic, nor Slavic. Its closest and only living relative is the Lithuanian language. However, while related, the Latvian and Lithuanian vocabularies vary greatly from each other and are not mutually intelligible.

Latvian is an inflective language with several analytical forms, three dialects, and German syntactical influence. There are two grammatical genders in Latvian. Each noun is declined in seven cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental, locative, and vocative.

History

Latvian emerged as a distinct language in the 16th century, having evolved from Latgalian and assimilating Curonian, Semigallian and Selonian on the way. All of these belong to the Baltic language group.

The oldest known examples of written Latvian are from a 1530 translation of a number of hymns made by Nicholas Ramm, a German pastor in Riga.

LATVIAN: a language of Latvia
SIL code: LAT
ISO 639-1: lv
ISO 639-2: lav

Population 1,394,000 in Latvia including over 500,000 Latgalians. Population total all countries 1,500,000 (1995 V. Zeps).

Region Also spoken in Australia, Belarus, Brazil, Canada, Estonia, Germany, Lithuania, New Zealand, Russia (Europe), Sweden, Ukraine, United Kingdom, USA, Venezuela.

Alternate names LATVISKA, 'LETTISH', 'LETTISCH'

Dialects WEST LATVIAN (CENTRAL LATVIAN), EAST LATVIAN (HIGH LATVIAN, LATGALIAN).

Classification Indo-European, Baltic, Eastern.

Comments Tamian is a subdialect of Central Latvian. Latvians do not like the term 'Lettish.' National language. Grammar. Roman script. Christian. Bible 1689-1995.

We offer

Professional technical Latvian translations
Professional legal Latvian translation
Professional medical Latvian translation