The necessity of a translation service for Sri Lanka's languages

If you plan to sell to the markets in Sri Lanka, you will soon realize the need for a translation service for Sri Lanka's languages. Translating your marketing collateral and packaging among other documents into the languages of Sri Lanka will give you advantages over your competitors.

A good translation into a language of Sri Lanka has to have correct spelling, grammar and punctuation as also the proper choice of words for getting the message across. A translation into a language of Sri Lanka lacking in any of these aspects may damage the image of your company or brand.

Keeping control over these linguistic factors in a Sri Lankan language translation is complicated by tight deadlines that ever-competitive markets require. Today, no business is as simple as it seems and marketing jargon or technical terminology creeps into practically all text that requires to be translated into a language of Sri Lanka.

To ensure that no text for translation into a language of Sri Lanka is "lost in translation" or gets mistranslated, we first assign a team to identify all words, phrases and even sentences which have a potential of being mistranslated or "lost in translation."  This step of identifying text which has a potential of being miscommunicated in a language of Sri Lanka is a tedious and time-consuming task. Many times though not often, we need the help of our clients to understand the nuances of the text assigned to us for translation into a language of Sri Lanka. At other times, we need your help in establishing the intended audience for the translation into a language of Sri Lanka or the "writing style" of the  translated text. Obviously, the choice of words and style will differ when translating into a  Language of Sri Lanka, a service manual for technicians than while translating into a language of Sri Lanka, an advertisement.

There are a multitude of file-formats to choose from when creating a file and there are even more choices when deciding on a file-format for a translation into Sri Lanka's languages. Usually, we return files in the same format as the original, but sometimes technical limitations compel us to choose a different though largely compatible file-format with the translation into Sri Lankan languages.

There are a number of standards for encoding text in languages of Sri Lanka, and we with our experience and knowledge help you choose the right one.