The languages spoken in Scandinavia are classed as North Germanic languages, and include Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Faroese. They are often referred to as Scandinavian languages, after the geographical area. Finnish is sometimes included in the list of Scandinavian languages, although it is completely unrelated to the other languages in the area.
The site we localised into Norwegian, Danish and Finnish has now gone live at http://www.finansbet.com/
Swedish Danish Finnish website translation (Click to enlarge)
Danish
Danish is a North Germanic language related to Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian, and Swedish.
The below example is just one of a series of children’s puzzle books from English into Danish involving translation, typesetting and proofreading. It was a difficult task to make the Danish translation actually work with some of the images and fit the puzzles.
Danish translation and typesetting of children's puzzle book (Click to enlarge)
Norwegian
Related to Icelandic and Faroese, Norwegian is also from the northern Germanic branch of the Indo-European family tree.
The example below is part of a project for a series of product information leaflets commissioned by the design agency that was producing the English versions.
Norwegian translation and typesetting sample by adelphi (Click to enlarge)
Swedish
Swedish is very close to Danish and Norwegian. There are at least 9 million speakers of Swedish.
The Equi-Trek website has already been translated by Adelphi Translations into French Italian and German. Now they are rolling out (literally) their horse box products into the Scandinavian market.
Swedish was the first language and the finished site can be seen at
http://se.equi-trek.com/
Swedish website for Equi-trek
Finnish
Finnish Translation and typesetting example
The official language of Finland, Finnish uses the Latin alphabet and the letters ä, ö.
Finnish is a unique language, unrelated to any other living tongue. When typesetting European languages we, here at Adelphi, are always banging on about the text expanding in comparison to English.
As an example we can present the ‘longest word in the Finnish language’, which happens to be ‘lentokonesuihkuturbiinimoottoriapumekaanikkoaliupseerioppilas’.
At 61 characters long, this would cause a nightmare were it be included in a translated and typeset document. It can be translated as: Someone who is an aeroplane jet turbine motor assistant mechanic, non-commissioned officer, in training. If you want to amuse and astound your friends at parties I have broken up the word so that you can have a stab at pronouncing it. ‘len-to-ko-ne-suih-ku-tur-bii-ni-moot-to-ria-pume-kaa-nik-koa-liup-see-riop-pil-as’. The word epäjärjestelmällisyydestäänköhän came a distant second with 32 letters.
