Afrikaans Translator and Afrikaans Interpreter Services

Our Afrikaans translator and Afrikaans interpreter services are available across Australia.  We also offer Afrikaans interpreters for Australians travelling internationally and an Afrikaans translator for all of your document translations.  Face to face interpreters are available for your meetings in Australia, and Afrikaans document translation services are available for all your Afrikaans translation needs. Telephone interpreter services are available for your business meetings.

Afrikaans Translation Services Overview

Afrikaans Translationz provides translator and interpreter services in cities across Australia and internationally. Our translators are professional, fast and accurate in all aspects of Afrikaans language translation.

Our Afrikaans translators are experienced in a wide variety of Afrikaans document translations. We spend the time to understand your needs and then recommend the right solution. We offer highly qualified, skilled, certified and experienced translators. Our Afrikaans translators have industry experience in legal document translation, medical records translation, marketing and websites, technical and engineering documents, birth, marriage and death certificates and more.

Ask about our enhanced quality assurance methodology, when achieving 100% accuracy is critical for your Afrikaans translation.

Translationz also provides experienced Afrikaans interpreters. Interpreters will come to your site or work over the phone or web. Our Interpreters are articulate, perceptive, professional and presentable and will easily adapt to the situation.

We can offer short or longer term arrangements for your Afrikaans intepreting assignments. Recent  Afrikaans Translation and Afrikaans Interpreter Projects Afrikaans Interpreter Services.

We are specialists in our Afrikaans interpreting across Australia.

For a free quote, click the “Get A Quote” button to the right of this screen, or call us on any phone number listed on this website.

Afrikaans Legal Translator

We were requested to translate Afrikaans documents for a court case.  Documents were translated and certified and the client was extremely satisfied.

Afrikaans Legal Interpreter (Afrikaans Court Interpreter)

An Afrikaans interpreter was required for this court case.  All of our Afrikaans interpreters were fully booked but we were able to meet this clients needs by flying our Afrikaans court interpreter in from interstate.

Certified Afrikaans Birth Certificate Translation

Translationz can perform rapid turnaround of a certified translation of Afrikaans Birth Certificate.  You can upload your scanned certificate for a rapid response and a quotation.  Our recent birth certificate translations have included:

Afrikaans Translation Melbourne Birth Certificate translation
Afrikaans Translation Brisbane Birth Certificate translation
Afrikaans Translation Sydney Birth Certificate translation
Afrikaans Translation Canberra Birth Certificate translation
Afrikaans Translation Perth Birth Certificate translation
Afrikaans Translation Adelaide Birth Certificate translation

Afrikaans Interpreter Services

We are specialists in our Afrikaans interpreting across Australia.

Afrikaans Medical Interpreter

We sent our qualified interpreter to assist with an urgent medical matter. Communication was clear and effective and the medical outcome was good.

For a free quote, click the “Get A Quote” button to the right of this screen, or call us on any phone number listed on this website.

Afrikaan Language

Afrikaans, also sometimes called Africaan, is basically an African language with some Western Germanic elements in its origin. This language is native to South Africa and Namibia, and is also spoken in some parts of Botswana and Zimbabwe. It was derived from the numerous Dutch dialects spoken by the early Dutch settlers in South Africa. However, as time passed, it continued to develop in isolation, especially during the eighteenth century. Historically it was known as “Cape Dutch”, which also referred to all of the early Cape settlers, or “Kitchen Dutch”, which was considered an offensive term for Afrikaans. Afrikaans has borrowed several words from other languages, such as Portuguese, Malay, and Bantu.

Afrikaans is the third most widely spoken language in South Africa, with approximately seven million speakers, or 13.5% of the population. It is one of the most widely spoken official languages in South Africa, and is often also spoken or understood as a person’s second or third language. It is the chief language of South Africa’s western half, Northern Cape, and Western Cape. It is the first language of nearly 70% of coloured native South Africans (about 3.4 million people) and the first language of 60% of white South Africans (about 2.7 million people).

Afrikaans is the first language of approximately 600,000 black South Africans. In addition, a huge number of English-speaking and Bantu-speaking South Africans speak Afrikaans as their second language.
The Afrikaans language is the second most widely spoken language in neighbouring Namibia, and it is the native language of 11% households in the southern parts of Karas and Hardap, as well as the capital, Windhoek.

It is estimated that between 15 million and 23 million people worldwide speak Afrikaans.

In Act 8 of 1925, Afrikaans became one of the official languages of South Africa. The development of Afrikaans can be traced to the arrival of settlers to the Cape, though this is not the sole factor leading to the development of Afrikaans, as the servants, slaves, and indigenous traders were required to communicate in Dutch. This is evidenced by the variety of influences present in Afrikaans, including Khoisan, Malaysian, French, Dutch, English, and German, among others. The language is not limited to these influences, however, and various dialects are spoken all over South Africa, with each region’s dominant indigenous language influencing the dialect of Afrikaans spoken in that region.

The popularity of Afrikaans, and its subsequent endorsement by the Apartheid government, has its roots in an attempted social engineering project through which the Dutch population in South Africa sought to unify the members of these groups. They aimed to create a South African nationalism that recognised their varied origins while emphasising a unique South African identity. However, this identity was largely based on race, and thus, Afrikaans as a language became synonymous with white oppression in South Africa. But despite attempts to create a schism with regard to language and race among South Africans, Afrikaans is widely spoken by black people.

Contact us for your Afrikaans translation using our professional translators.