World Translation Center delivers professional Albanian translation services for English to Albanian and Albanian to English. We can also translate Albanian to and from over 130 other languages, including all the principal languages of Europe, Asia, South America, the Middle East and a variety of African languages, at economical prices.
Our Albanian specialists have the ability to provide translation for virtually any project you might have, including marketing materials, technical, financial, legal and medical documents, websites and software. Our knowledgeable project managers will match your project with a translator team most appropriate for the area of expertise considered necessary. Each individual linguist deals solely in his or her own mother tongue and within his or her area of expertise insuring not only top quality translation, but proper localization as well. After each document is translated, it will be edited and proofread by a second professional translator to assure highest possible quality.
We also furnish transcription, video recording and subtitling services. If you need to have an existing video dubbed, a commercial narrated or a telephone system recorded, our native Albanian speakers are available to provide high quality voiceover services.
We pride ourselves in supplying high quality cost-effective services, whether your project is small or large, simple or highly complex.
Albanian Information
Albanian is the official language of Albania, but also spoken in Kosovo, western Macedonia, and areas in Montenegro and Serbia, southern Italy, Sicily and southern Greece.
Albanian Language Facts
Albanian belongs to the Indo-European language family. Two main dialect groups exist: Gheg or Geg spoken in northern Albania, in Serbia and Montenegro, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Bulgaria, and Tosk which is spoken in southern Albania, Turkey, Greece and Italy. Both languages are more or less mutually intelligible. The dialect Tosk is the official language of Albania.
Albanian is an Indo-European language related to many other European languages but forms a language group of its own. Not only in its vocabulary, but also in its morphology and syntax, Albanian shows many traits in common with other Balkan languages. Among these traits are: a postpositive definite article; the fusion of the genitive and dative case endings; the formation of the numbers 11-19 by “one on ten”; the absence of a grammatical infinitive; and the formation of the future tense with the verb “to want.”
In its structure, Albanian is a synthetic language similar to most other Indo-European languages. Nouns are marked for gender, number, case and also have definite and indefinite forms. The vast majority of nouns are masculine or feminine, though there are rare examples of neuter nouns, which now function increasingly as masculine in the singular and feminine in the plural. Nouns appear in the singular and plural, as in most other European languages. There are approximately 100 plural formations, including suffixes, umlauts, final consonant changes, and combinations thereof.
Writing Albanian
The earliest written record originated from the 15th century, in the Gheg area and was based on Italian, Greek and sometimes on Turko-Arabic characters. A standard orthography was not adopted until 1909, which was then based on the Latin alphabet, with the addition of two letters and nine diagraphs.