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Looking for a translation agency that can deal with the Amharic language? Welcome!

Need business documents translated from English into Amharic? Want a French website to have an Amharic option? How about an advertising campaign or a video for Ethiopia? Don’t worry – we have them all covered.

No matter how challenging your request, we deliver. We have the team, experience, knowledge and passion to meet any challenge.
For 10 years our translation company has provided Amharic translation services for projects large and small across industry. We handle brochures, marketing material, press releases, legal documents, product labels, proposals, PowerPoints, technical files, medical notes, technical manuals, company reports, training materials, websites and much more.

In short, if you need a Amharic translation – simply contact us and we will take care of the rest. Nice, simple, hassle-free.

Professional Amharic translators

When you use African Language Solutions you can rest assured you are dealing with professionals – professional translators, professional Project Managers and a professional company.

Our team guarantee you the following:

  • We will beat any like-for-like quote on Amharic translations
  • We will assign an experienced, professional translator fit to carry out your specific project
  • We will apply world class quality assurance measures throughout the whole process
  • We will not miss a deadline

We believe that trust is key to achieving long-term success and to achieve this we focus on quality. As a result we apply Quality Assurance measures throughout the whole process, from the moment you contact us to delivery and beyond.

Why not try us out? Contact one of the team and let us impress you.

Quick Facts
  • Alternate names & spellings:  Abyssinian, Ethiopian, Amarinya (also spelled Amharinya and Amarigna), Kuchumba.
  • Language ISO code: am/ amh
  • Number of speakers: approximately 22 million first- and 4 million second-languages speakers
  • Writing system:  It is written with a version of the Ge´ez or Ethiopic script known as ፊደል (Fidel) and there is no standard way to transliterate Amharic into the Latin alphabet.
  • Spoken in: The Federal Republic of Ethiopia.
About Amharic

Amharic is the second most spoken Semitic language in the world, with Arabic being the first one.

It is the official language and the working language (along with English and Tigrinya) of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, where the majority of Amharic speakers can be found, nevertheless there are also speakers in a large number of other countries such as Egypt, Eritrea, Canada, the USA and Sweden.

Amharic is not the only language spoken in Ethiopia since the country has hundreds of languages and different ethnic groups, but it is undoubtedly the most accepted and used. It is also the only African language with its own characters and features, having more than 200 different letters. But what it really makes unique this endemic language is that it has its own numbering system, feature that only a few countries in the whole world have. This Ethiopic numbering system comes originally from the language named Ge´ez, the liturgical language of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church which is only used now in churches.

The word Amharic comes from the district of Amhara in Northern Ethiopia, which is considered its historic centre. Nowadays there are two main hypotheses on the origin of Amharic: it might be a descendent of a Proto Ethio- Semitic language or it might was developed from a Semitic- based pidgin.

At the moment Amharic language is getting more and more reputation at international level and some universities in Europe and Asia are already including Amharic language in their academic programmes.

Amharic dialects

Gondar, Gojjami and Showa. All these dialects are mutually intelligible and differentiate each other drastically in the pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary. The standard Amharic is the one spoken in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia.

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