Afrikaans Translation and Localization Services
The following information is provided by Omniglot.
Afrikaans is a descendent of Dutch which is spoken mainly in South Africa and Namibia by about 6 million people. There are also speakers of Afrikaans in Australia, Belgium, Botswana, Canada, Germany, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the UK, the USA, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Afrikaans retains some features of 18th century Dutch, together with vocabulary from various Bantu and Khoisan languages and also from Portugese and Malay. Speakers of Afrikaans can understand Dutch, though Dutch speakers tend to need a while to tune into Afrikaans.
From about 1815 Afrikaans started to replace Malay as the language of instruction in Muslim schools in South Africa. At that time it was written with the Arabic alphabet. Afrikaans, written with the Latin alphabet, started to appeared in newspapers and political and religious works in about 1850. Then in 1875 a group of Afrikaans speakers from the Cape formed the Genootskap vir Regte Afrikaanders (Society for Real Afrikaners), and published a number of books in Afrikaans, including grammars, dictionaries, religious material and histories. They also published a journal called the Patriot.
During the early years of the 20th century there was a blossoming of academic interest in Afrikaans. In 1925 Afrikaans was recognised by the government as a real language, instead of a slang version of Dutch. Afrikaans has changed little since then.
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Language Intelligence offers professional Afrikaans translation and localization services. Our Afrikaans translators are all professional, native-speaking translators that have developed a proven subject matter expertise in the various types of content we translate.
Whether working from Afrikaans to English or English to Afrikaans, our Afrikaans translation services are designed to prepare your technical documentation, software and marketing collateral for global distribution.
We offer a variety of Afrikaans language services:
- Afrikaans Translation
- Afrikaans Document Translation
- Afrikaans Software Translation
- Afrikaans Website Translation
- Afrikaans Technical Services
- Afrikaans Consulting
- Afrikaans Voiceover & Subtitling
- Afrikaans Language Learning Solutions
- Afrikaans Culture Training
- Afrikaans Interpreting
We provide Afrikaans solutions for a variety of industries:
- Afrikaans translation for the Advertising & Marketing Industry
- Afrikaans translation for the Electronics & Hi-Tech Industry
- Afrikaans translation for the Alternative Energy & Clean Technology Industries
- Afrikaans translation for the Life Sciences Industries
- Afrikaans translation for the Manufacturing Industry
- Afrikaans translation for the Software & IT Industries
- Afrikaans translation for the Market Research Industry
- Afrikaans translation for the Employee Survey Industry
