Afrikaans Translation Services

NAATI Translation Services Afrikaans

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Perth Translation Services provides fast NAATI translations for key Perth and Western Australia authorities. Order official and certified NAATI translation from Perth Translation wherever you are based in Australia.

• Department of Home Affairs
• Western Australian Courts (including Family Courts)
• Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT)
• Department of Transport (WA)
• Medical Board of Australia
• Dental Board of Australia
• Tertiary Institutions Service Centre (TISC)
• Engineers Australia
• Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions for Western Australia
• Economic Regulation Authority
• Edith Cowan University
• Department of Education (WA)
• Department of Energy, Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety
• Environmental Protection Authority

Perth Translation - Professional Translators for Australia

Afrikaans is a West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia and, to a lesser extent, Botswana and Zimbabwe. It evolved from the Dutch vernacular of South Holland (Hollandic dialect) spoken by the mainly Dutch settlers of what is now South Africa, where it gradually began to develop distinguishing characteristics in the course of the 18th century. Hence, it is a daughter language of Dutch, and was previously referred to as "Cape Dutch" (a term also used to refer collectively to the early Cape settlers) or "kitchen Dutch" (a derogatory term used to refer to Afrikaans in its earlier days). However, it is also variously described as a creole or as a partially creolised language. The term is ultimately derived from Dutch Afrikaans-Hollands meaning "African Dutch". It is the first language of most of the Afrikaners and Coloureds of Southern Africa.

Although Afrikaans has adopted words from other languages, including German and the Khoisan languages, an estimated 90 to 95% of the vocabulary of Afrikaans is of Dutch origin. Therefore, differences with Dutch often lie in the more analytic morphology and grammar of Afrikaans, and a spelling that expresses Afrikaans pronunciation rather than standard Dutch.