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Afrikaans Marketing Translation
Perth Translation provides Afrikaans marketing translations for businesses in Australia. As a professional translation services provider, we offer fast and quality Afrikaans marketing translations for all types of advertising material, including but not limited to:
- Product descriptions
- Signage and namecards
- Brochures and flyers
- Magazines and newsletters
- Menus
- Websites
We usually work with InDesign project folders shared by clients, and deliver multilingual marketing translation from a single brochure in English. Working with local Afrikaans translators and typesetters, you can be assured your project gets delivered by professionals familiar with the local culture and terminology used in Australia.
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About the Afrikaans Language
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.
