Fact about Amharic

Fact  about Amharic

Ethiotrans is one of the leading Amharic and other Ethiopian and African languages translation and localization company. If you are looking for highly qualified and experienced document translators or skilled software localization engineer call us at 619 255 5530. 

Also we offer the following unique services:

Interpretation: Is you firm or organization is looking for a skilled Amharic interpreter? Well, you are at the right place. We have Amharic interpreters for medical,  deposition, court or any on-site or on the phone assignments. Do not let luck of communication between you and your client hinder your projects. 

Transcription: If you have an audio or video transcription project let us know. We have everything you need. We can transcribe your media project and will translate the document to the language of your choice. If you are using the transcribed and the translation project for subtitling purpose,  we will also create a timeline (timestamp) that will insure the target and source language will much.

Multilingual Desk Top Published: One of the top secrete for Amharic Desk Top Publishing is having a right translation and a right set of fonts. Since most Amharic word-processing software and fonts do not have a standard and they are not compatible each other, getting a right font is crucial. Most Amharic fonts are working fine  in Microsoft Word, but they will change their behaviors when they are imported to some professional graphics software like Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop or  Quark Express. If you have an Amharic document which is translated by another translator (in MS Word) and you want to give this document for your in-house DTP expert, there will have a high chance of  creating errors. This is because some Amharic fonts will break when they are imported to another graphics software. If you deliver the final DTP with out a native Amharic speaker proofreading, your are taking a high chance. Our advice is don't take chance, let us take your project and we will make sure you have an understandable document. 

UNICODE WEB SITE DESIGN: If you are planning to localize a web site we think we have the tool. Our Amharic Unicode website localization team is ready to help. We have one of the first Amharic Localization team. We use Unicode Amharic fonts and Unicode Amharic  converter. If you have an none-Unicode Amharic translated document we can convert this document to UNICODE. By converting you web site to UNICODE Amharic you will eliminate the time to convert the document to PDF or graphics format.  Also the downside having a graphics document in your site is, it takes too much time to download. 

Amharic is the national language of Ethiopia, which has a population of approximately 58 million people.  Ethiopia is located in Eastern Africa, slightly less than twice the size of Texas.

Roughly 30% of the population speak Amharic as a first language, and an additional 20% use Amharic as a second language. About 29 million people therefore use Amharic daily Counting in Amharic numeric is easy and simple, if you learn how to count from one two ten it will be easy to count the entire numeric system. See below. The new service. Write your name in Amharic. Please see this example  new  June 2, 2003. Because of popular demand we no longer provide a free Amharic name translations or writings. If you would like to have your name written in Amharic fonts and to have the meaning please see the price list below.  If you do not have a Paypal account please send check or international money order to the address below. Please do not forget to add the service type you want. E.g. Platinum, Diamond and so on.      Service Type Description   Price  Platinum  If you order a Platinum Service we will give you a  translation  (if available) of name and its  definition in Amharic. This includes the name and its definition  will be written in Amharic fonts and we will give you both the editable version and the graphics version.  The editable version will be in MS Word format and the graphics version can be in .PDF, .JPG , .GIF or .EPS forma.  We support only PC platforms. for Amharic font limitation please read this    $35.00 USD per person    Diamond  The Diamond Service will be similar with Platinum Serviceexcept,  you will not get the editable version and the name definition will not be translated.   $25 USD per person  Gold Gold Service will be similar with Diamond Service except you will not get multiple version of graphics version. You will get only .JPG version    $20 USD per person   Sliver The Sliver Service will give only your name written only on Amharic fonts. No translation      $ 15 USD per person  Bronze The Bronze Service gives only the meaning of  your name written on English/Latin fonts. No Amharic font    $10 USD  per person Tell us about the meaning of your name Do you need your name to be written in Amharic fonts? Please send us an email at info@ethiotrans.com   Ethiopian Names (mostly Amharic names) more names 1-1000 in Amharic Twenty to Hundred  Most frequent asked Amharic phrases and words

 

African Languages

 

Eygipt Libiya Algeria Morocco Ruwanda Flag Who speaks What? Sample_voice World ALRC Djibouti World Lanaguages  We translate your document from any Ethiopian language to English and we certify our translation. Good for INS and other official use Buy your airline Ethiopian ticket on line Amharic Software on sale only 39.99+ S&H  Amharic Interpreters wanted ለመሆኑ የቦ ምንድን ነው?What is Yebbo? Addis Printing Celebrate the African Millennium with style in Africa

County Flag Language Support Algeria Arabic (official), French, Berber dialects Yes Angola Portuguese (official), Bantu and other African languages Yes Benin French (official), Fon and Yoruba (most common vernaculars in south), tribal languages (at least six major ones in north) Yes Botswana English (official), Setswana Yes Burkina Faso French (official), native African languages belonging to Sudanic family spoken by 90% of the population Yes Burundi Kirundi (official), French (official), Swahili (along Lake Tanganyika and in the Bujumbura area) Yes Cameroon 24 major African language groups, English (official), French (official) Yes Central African Republic French (official), Sangho (lingua franca and national language), Arabic, Hunsa, Swahili Yes Chad French (official), Arabic (official), Sara and Sango (in south), more than 100 different languages and dialects Yes Congo, Democratic Republic of the French (official), Lingala (a lingua franca trade language), Kingwana (a dialect of Kiswahili or Swahili), Kikongo, Tshiluba Yes Djibouti French (official), Arabic (official), Somali, Afar Yes Egypt Arabic (official), English and French widely understood by educated classes Yes quatorial Guinea Spanish (official), French (official), pidgin English, Fang, Bubi, Ibo Yes Ethiopia Amharic, Tigrinya, Oromigna, Guaragigna, Somali, Arabic, other local languages, English (major foreign language taught in schools) Yes Gabon French (official), Fang, Myene, Bateke, Bapounou/Eschira, Bandjabi Yes   Gambia English (official), Mandinka, Wolof, Fula, other indigenous vernaculars Yes   Ghana English (official), African languages (including Akan, Moshi-Dagomba, Ewe, and Ga) Yes Guinea French (official), each ethnic group has its own language Yes Guinea-Bissau Portuguese (official), Crioulo, African languages   Kenya English (official), Kiswahili (official), numerous indigenous languages Yes Liberia English 20% (official), some 20 ethnic group languages, of which a few can be written and are used in correspondence Yes Libya Arabic, Italian, English, all are widely understood in the major cities Yes Madagascar French (official), Malagasy (official) Yes Malawi English (official), Chichewa (official), other languages important regionally Yes Mali French (official), Bambara 80%, numerous African languages Yes Mauritania Hasaniya Arabic (official), Pular, Soninke, Wolof (official), French Yes Mauritius English (official), Creole, French, Hindi, Urdu, Hakka, Bojpoori Yes Morocco Arabic (official), Berber dialects, French often the language of business, government, and diplomacy Yes Mozambique Portuguese (official), indigenous dialects Yes Namibia English 7% (official), Afrikaans common language of most of the population and about 60% of the white population, German 32%, indigenous languages: Oshivambo, Herero, Nama Yes Niger French (official), Hausa, Djerma Yes Nigeria English (official), Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo (Ibo), Fulani Yes Rwanda Kinyarwanda (official) universal Bantu vernacular, French (official), English (official), Kiswahili (Swahili) used in commercial centers Yes Senegal French (official), Wolof, Pulaar, Jola, Mandinka Yes Sierra Leone English (official, regular use limited to literate minority), Mende (principal vernacular in the south), Temne (principal vernacular in the north), Krio (English-based Creole, spoken by the descendants of freed Jamaican slaves who were settled in the Freetown area, a lingua franca and a first language for 10% of the population but understood by 95%) Yes Somalia Somali (official), Arabic, Italian, English Yes South Africa 11 official languages, including Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Pedi, Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu Yes Sudan Arabic (official), Nubian, Ta Bedawie, diverse dialects of Nilotic, Nilo-Hamitic, Sudanic languages, English Yes Tanzania Kiswahili or Swahili (official), Kiunguju (name for Swahili in Zanzibar), English (official, primary language of commerce, administration, and higher education), Arabic (widely spoken in Zanzibar), many local languages note:  Kiswahili (Swahili) is the mother tongue of the Bantu people living in Zanzibar and nearby coastal Tanzania; although Kiswahili is Bantu in structure and origin, its vocabulary draws on a variety of sources, including Arabic and English, and it has become the lingua franca of central and eastern Africa; the first language of most people is one of the local languages Yes Togo  French (official and the language of commerce), Ewe and Mina (the two major African languages in the south), Kabye (sometimes spelled Kabiye) and Dagomba (the two major African languages in the north) Yes Tunisia Arabic (official and one of the languages of commerce), French (commerce) Yes Uganda English (official national language, taught in grade schools, used in courts of law and by most newspapers and some radio broadcasts), Ganda or Luganda (most widely used of the Niger-Congo languages, preferred for native language publications in the capital and may be taught in school), other Niger-Congo languages, Nilo-Saharan languages, Swahili, Arabic Yes Zambia English (official), major vernaculars - Bemba, Kaonda, Lozi, Lunda, Luvale, Nyanja, Tonga, and about 70 other indigenous languages Yes Zimbabwe English (official), Shona, Sindebele (the language of the Ndebele, sometimes called Ndebele), numerous but minor tribal dialects Yes a

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