Portuguese Translation

Web-Translations offers translation in to, or from:

• Portuguese for Portugal
• Portuguese for Brazil

Our service promise will ensure that you have one point of contact for all of your Portuguese Translation requirements.  Whether it's an archive of online learning resources, as it was for Ashridge Business School, a website, as for HD camera sales company Zacuto or even legal contracts, software, marketing literature or any other type of material, we are able to deal with it and return it in the format you require; on time, on budget and of the highest quality possible.

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Specialist Portuguese translators

Your translators are carefully chosen and vetted to ensure that only suitably qualified translators and linguists undertake your projects. Specialist translators have backgrounds in law, medicine, leisure, finance, engineering and many other industries. 

We understand that it is important for your translation to be perfectly geared towards its intended audience.  Whether the text needs to have some degree of editorial flair, be an exact translation, text aimed at a younger generation or at multi-national corporations, we have exactly the right type of translators on-hand.

More than just a translation...

For ongoing or large projects we will manage your language asset meaning you never pay for a sentence to be translated twice. On top of that, this system means that the terminology is kept consistent throughout your literature.

We work within a documented quality procedure born from experience. Where required we will adopt additional quality controls in order to align with client-side process.

Web-Translations can accept all file types and deliver ready to print or publish files. Translated data can be designed for both on-line and off-line publishing in a variety of formats.

All employees and translators are bound by confidentiality and corporate nondisclosure agreements. Confidentiality and security issues are taken very seriously.

The Portuguese Language

Portuguese is the sixth most spoken language in the world.  Furthermore, somewhat surprisingly, it is the most spoken language in South America owing to its status as the national language of Brazil and therefore of its approximately 138 million residents, though remember this is a different strain of Portuguese from its European counterpart.  Its closet language relative is Spanish which is also part of the West Iberian branch of the Romance Languages.

The Portuguese speaking population is divided between Portugal and seven former Portuguese colonies: Brazil, Mozambique, Angola, Guinea Bissau, São Tomé and Príncipe, East Timor and Cape Verde (although it is important to note that in some of these countries the Portuguese is more Creole based).  In all, Portuguese is an official language in every continent bar North America.

Owing to the Moorish occupation of the Iberian peninsular following the invasions of 711, around 1000 Arabic words entered the Portuguese lexicon.  These are often characterized by the initial Arabic article a(l), for example in 'aldeia' meaning 'village' from the Arabic 'الضيعة' or 'aldaya.'

So, too, did the Age of Exploration after the 15th Century have an impact on the Portuguese language.  Portugal was the foremost exponent of sea exploration as a result of their superior ship building and navigation skills and so, in time, they conquered many sea towns around the world.  Each of these in-turn had their own influence on the Portuguese lexicon which expanded with words from Chinese, Japanese and Malay.

Finally, as an intermediary stop-off point on the Atlantic slave trade route, Portuguese also gained many words of Amerind and Africa origin.