Afrikaans Translation Services

Yes. Translation in Afrikaans - a language of South Africa and Namibia - is routine here, not something arranged specially when it comes up. The text is delivered in Latin script with diacritics such as ê, ô and ï, produced by a native speaker and checked by a second one before it reaches you.

Two people: an Afrikaans-speaking translator who knows the subject, and a reviewer who reads the finished file against the source. Nobody works into Afrikaans from a dictionary here, and nothing is delivered on one pair of eyes. Anything genuinely unclear is marked, never filled in.

It depends on length and on how difficult the source is, and the time is in the quote before you commit. Rush delivery within 2 to 24 hours covers the urgent end. Afrikaans material with heavy code-switching takes longer to work through than clean single-speaker source, and the date you are given reflects that. Scope is agreed before the clock starts, so a document job, a website and a media file on the same order each get their own realistic date.

The 99+% accuracy standard applies to every file, and it holds because each translation is produced by a person and then checked against the source by a second reviewer. Dates, figures and proper nouns are checked separately from the prose, because those are the details a reviewing office compares first. The reviewer on each Afrikaans file checks names and terms against the source instead of reading the text through, because this material is full of names nobody can guess at. Anything genuinely unclear is flagged for you, never guessed at.

Yes. NDAs cover every person on the project, uploads and deliveries are encrypted, and nobody outside the assigned team can open your material. Afrikaans files often carry names, addresses and case references, so access stays with the assigned translator and the reviewer. Personal records, contracts and pre-filing material arrive daily, so access is closed by default and opened only to the pair on the job.

Yes - regional Afrikaans is the normal case here, not the exception. Afrikaans throws up one difficulty in almost every file: speakers mix English words into Afrikaans sentences constantly, so transcripts have to keep both languages as spoken. Matching the speaker to someone from the same region happens at assignment, so it costs nothing and removes most of the guesswork before anyone starts.

Most often farm and business meetings, church services, interviews and court recordings. Each type carries its own conventions - speaker labels for interviews, timestamps for legal material, clean formatting for anything published - and those are agreed before work starts. Most of the work here ends up in front of someone with the authority to reject it.

In Latin script with diacritics such as ê, ô and ï, as a reader of Afrikaans would expect to see it. The finished file is real text, not an image or a phonetic approximation, so your team can search it, paste from it and quote it. Rarer languages are confirmed as available before the quote goes out, not after you have paid.

Both directions. Afrikaans into English and English into Afrikaans go to different people, because a translator works into their first language and not out of it. Certified translation is available at $25 per page. Certified pages are prepared in the format the receiving office asks for, with the signed statement attached.

Translation starts at $0.10 per word, and certified documents at $25 per page, with volume pricing once a project passes an agreed size. The quote for Afrikaans translation is worked out from the word count, the subject matter and whether the document has to be certified. Translation is priced per word and certification per page, so you can see which part of the figure is which. Afrikaans is requested often enough that work starts straight away instead of waiting for a specialist to come free. Send the material and the figure comes back within minutes.