Italian Medical Translation

Our Italian medical translation teams have been carefully vetted and put together to ensure that they cover a broad range of areas within medicine.

The strength and breadth of our team’s experience allows us to place your work with individuals who have exactly the skill set and experience to give you precise and accurate Italian medical translations.

Our approach is to build specific teams of Italian medical translators for each client’s work, or project. We carefully vet our Italian medical translators before they arrive on our database, collecting references and test translations, and our recruitment process is designed to really drill down on the exact areas of specialization within medicine.

Areas of expertise are then stored as keywords, searchable by our Project Management Team.

The testing process is designed to ensure that these specializations are backed up by good translation skills and the right terminological knowledge in Italian.

Once registered, our Italian medical translators are subject to ongoing quality assurance processes, which allow us to track translator performance over time, and to develop a well rounded picture of their expertise, strengths and weaknesses.

Italian is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world and in translation circles is often referred to as one of the “big 5” languages, along with English, French, Spanish, and German. There are a great many agencies and translators offering Italian. However, it is important to work with an agency, such as TOPPAN Digital Language, that has a track record of working with the best Italian translators and consistently producing high quality translations.

Although many of our Italian linguists are located in Italy we also have a large number of mother tongue Italian translators and interpreters dispersed all around the world. Our global Project Management presence and dispersed teams of Italian translators means that we can offer you real advantages where you have tight turnaround requirements.

Italian is part of the Romance language family and is spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, the Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Croatia, Slovenia, Monaco, France, Somalia, Libya, Eritrea and Ethiopia, and by communities in Australia and the Americas. Many of these speakers happen to be native bilinguals of other regional languages and standardized Italian.

If you agree with the Bologna statistics of the European Union (EU), Italian is a native language of 59 million people in the EU which is 13% of the whole EU population. These speakers are mainly in Italy, but there are 14 million (3%) who have Italian as a second language. If you include the Italian speakers outside of the EU and Europe such as Switzerland and Albania and on other continents, the number rises to more than 85 million.

Italian is one of four official languages In Switzerland; it is learned and studied in all the confederation schools and spoken natively in the Swiss cantons of Grigioni and Ticino and by the Italian immigrants that live in large numbers in French and German speaking cantons. It is the official language of San Marino, as well as the main language of the Vatican City. In Slovenia it is the co-official language and in Istria County and in Istria in Croatia.

The Italian language found itself adopted by the state after Italy unified is based on Tuscan, which was previously a language spoken by upper class members of the Florentine society. As it was developed it became influenced by some of the other Italian languages as well as the Germanic languages of the post-Roman invaders.

Italian has descended from Latin over the years. Unlike most of the other Romance languages, Italian has retained the Latin trait of contrasting between long and short consonants. As in nearly all of the Romance languages, stress is highly distinctive. Among the Romance languages it is Italian that is the closest to Latin in terms of vocabulary.

The standard language has a literary and poetic origin in the twelfth century, and the standard of the modern language was shaped largely by fairly recent events. However, The Italian that has been used in the Italian Peninsula has a far longer history. The earliest surviving texts that can without question be called Italian (or vernacular, as distinct from its precursor Vulgar Latin) are legal formulae from the Benevento Province that date from 960–963. The language that would come to be thought of as Italian was actually first formalized in the early 14th century thanks to the works of Dante Alighieri, a Tuscan writer that wrote in his native Florentine. Dante’s poems, known as the Commedia, to which Giovanni Boccaccio, another Tuscan poet later attached the title Divina, were read all over Italy and this written dialect became the “canonical standard” that all Italians who are educated could understand. Even still, Dante is credited with standardizing the Italian language, and through this process the the dialect of Florence became the basis for the Italian languages in its current guise was made.

Before the unification of Italy, Italian was often an official language of various Italian states predating and slowly usurping Latin, even when these territories were ruled by foreign powers, for example; the Spanish in Naples, or the Austrians in Lombardy-Venetia, and even though most of the population spoke in vernacular languages and dialects primarily. The language was also recognized in the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Since its formation, Italy has had distinctive dialects for each of its cities, because the cities themselves were, until recently, thought of as city-states. These dialects have substantial variety. As Tuscan-derived Italian became used throughout the country, some features of resident speech were adopted naturally, producing various versions of Regional Italian.

There are differences to do with geography. In The Northern language, southern dialects and languages were untouched by the Franco-Occitan influences that were introduced to the country, mainly during the Middle Ages by bards from France, but, after southern Italy experienced the Norman Conquest, became the first Italian land to adopt Occitan lyric words and moods in poetry was Sicily.

The relatively advanced development and economic might of Tuscany in the Late Middle Ages gave it its dialect weight, although the Venetian language stayed a widespread one in medieval Italian commercial life, and Ligurian, otherwise known as Genoese remained in use in maritime trade alongside the Mediterranean. The increasing cultural and political relevance of Florence during the periods of the rise of Medici’s bank, Renaissance and the Humanism made its dialect or a refined version of it standard in the arts.

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