Professional and Accurate Localization Solutions
Albanian is spoken by 7.5 million people and is an official language in Albania, Montenegro, Kosovo, and North Macedonia, making Albanian translations vital to access the Balkan market. In addition to its status as an official language, Albanian is a recognized minority language in Romania, Italy, Croatia, and Serbia. With the recent passing of the EU MDR, which requires all product labelling to be in official EU languages, Albanian serves as a crucial language for life science companies attempting to penetrate the European life science market. This importance is further highlighted by Albania’s almost complete reliance on imports for medical devices and pharmaceutical products.
Linguistic accuracy, in-depth cultural understanding, subject matter expertise, and localization best practices are all necessary components in ensuring success for any product or service entering the local market. Additionally, high-quality, consistent localization solutions for the Albanian language requires advanced AI translation technology combined with native, in-country linguists for a quick turnaround time.
Albanian Dialects
The two most common dialect groups in Albania are Tosk (which is the basis for Standard Albanian), and Gheg. Although Gheg was the primary Albanian dialect at the start of the 15th Century, after Communist rule, Tosk replaced Gheg as the more favored Albanian dialect. Currently, Tosk is commonly spoken in southern Albania, while Gheg is spoken in northern Albania, and both are mutually intelligible. The various Tosk dialects and Gheg dialects are:
- Gheg
- Southern Gheg
- Northwest Gheg
- Central Gheg
- Northeast Gheg
- Tosk
- Italo-Albanian Tosk
- Southern Tosk
- Northern Tosk
- Arvanitic Tosk
With so many different cultural nuances that vary across regions, the importance of understanding local communities is critical for ensuring success in whatever product or service is entering the market. Whether you are seeking Albanian to English translations or English to Albanian translations, it is essential to ensure the cultural appropriateness and local sophistication of every project entering or expanding from Albania’s market.
Through our in-country, subject matter expert linguists, and with over 20 years of experience, CSOFT understands the importance of distinguishing different dialects of Albanian depending on the project.
CSOFT provides professional and technically accurate Albanian translation solutions for all business sectors including:
- Life Sciences
- Pharmaceuticals
- Biotechnology
- Medical Devices
- CRO
- Healthcare
- Legal
- Financial
- IT/Software
- Manufacturing
- Government
- eCommerce
- eLearning/Online Education
- Transportation
- Entertainment & Media
- Oil, Gas & Energy
- Gaming
- Travel & Transportation
Quality Assurance
Through our innovative cloud-based technology, CSOFT offers an online translation management ecosystem for one central location to leverage both translation memory as well as terminology management in real time.
Professional, high-quality localization of a health service or medical product is critical for medical translation solutions entering global markets. CSOFT understands the importance of accurate translation, which is why we have developed a process for quality assurance to ensure that any project that is translated meets quality standards in a timely manner that is also cost effective. Our advanced translation technology management system allows for translation projects to remain in one centralized location, updated in real time, to ensure that every step of the way, CSOFT has you covered. Additionally, we are certified in ISO 17100:2015, ISO 9001:2015, and ISO 13485:2016, and our operations leverage best practices of ISO 27001 to ensure our customized solutions meet global regulatory requirements.
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Albanian Translations for Diverse Content
CSOFT has extensive experience localizing a variety of content from and to Albanian including:
Utilizing our translation tools are able to process a variety of file types such as:
- MS Word
- MS Excel
- PowerPoint
- JAVA
- InDesign
- FrameMaker
- HTML
- XML
- DITA
Albanian Medical Translations
For life science companies looking to expand their businesses into international markets, the need for culturally-sensitive and technically accurate medical translations is key to success. As clinical trials are increasingly conducted abroad, and as the world shifts to become more connected than ever before, life science companies must work to globalize their products and services to meet the demands of Albanian speaking consumers.
CSOFT provides the highest-quality translation solutions for life science companies entering into new markets. We ensure that our customized communication solutions are not only accurate, but also cost-effective and time sensitive, catered to meet the regulatory submission standards for the target market. With a network of over 10,000 linguists and subject matter experts, we help life science companies reach patients globally.
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Data Security
With over 20 years of experience in medical translation, CSOFT Health Sciences understands the importance of data security to our clients, and we take nothing for granted when confidentiality is a concern. Our well-documented and fully traceable information data security policies, checklists, and quality records leverage the best practices of ISO 27001. They are designed to protect everything from source data to translations. From our 24/7/365 data monitoring and advanced encryption to our access control measures, you can be sure that your project data is safe from start to finish.
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