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Project Managers

Our project managers don’t just consider language when selecting the right translator for your project. They also take into account your subject field. In our huge database of professional translators, we can always find someone who has expertise in your industry. This guarantees that complicated medical, legal or other technical documents are translated accurately. We also translate Somali into other languages, including English. If, for example, you need a certified translation of a marriage licence or birth certificate from Somalia, we can provide this for presentation to an immigration agency. We can do this because we have native English speakers who are also fluent in Somali. In fact, any language combination is easy for us to accomplish for you.

High-quality Somali translations

Somali is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken by about 12 million people, mainly in the Horn of Africa. It’s the official language of Somalia, Somaliland, the so-called Somali region, Ethiopia and Djibouti. Outside of Somalia, the language is spoken by the people who were forced to flee from the dictator Siad Barres. For this reason, groups of Somali speakers exist in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, as well as in some Scandinavian countries, Italy and the Netherlands. These native speakers of Somali living outside of Somalia make up a group of over 3 million people.

Somali: A long tradition

For generations, Somali was passed down orally. Then, for centuries, it was written using a special form of Arabic script before it was eventually decided to use the Latin alphabet instead.

Somali was standardised after it was declared the official language of Somalia. All mass media and the entire educational system had to switch from English and Italian to Somali. At the time, the Somali population had high levels of illiteracy. But as of today, more than half of the inhabitants of Somalia can read and write. This means that the requirement for translations to and from Somalia is growing.

We can help you translate all your documents, no matter how small or large and no matter the subject. The Somali language has many idiosyncrasies; for example, a strong inflexion emphasises a word's meaning in a sentence, and nouns can also be defined as masculine or feminine.

So, you need a professional translator who really understands these specific features of the Somali language.