Native Name: العربية (al-ʿarabīyah)
Number of Speakers: 280 million
Official language of: 26 countries including Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Script used: Arabic Alphabet (written right-to-left)
Sample of Arabic
Arabic Translation and Typesetting for Jaguar
Arabic ranks fourth in the world’s league table of languages. As the language of the Qur’an, the holy book of Islam, it is also widely used throughout the Muslim world. It belongs to the Semitic group of languages which also includes Hebrew and Amharic, the main language of Ethiopia. There are many Arabic dialects. Classical Arabic was originally the dialect of Mecca in what is now Saudi Arabia. An adapted form of this, known as Modern Standard Arabic is used in books, newspapers, on television and radio, in the mosques, and in conversation between educated Arabs from different countries.
Arabic translation and typesetting for the Overseas Development Institute
Each Arabic speaking country or region also has its own variety of colloquial spoken Arabic These colloquial varieties of Arabic appear in written form in some poetry, cartoons and comics, plays and personal letters. There are also translations of the bible into most varieties of colloquial Arabic. Arabic is spoken in many countries in the Middle East including Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, UAE, Yemen.
Arabic has many different, geographically distributed spoken varieties, some of which are mutually unintelligible. Modern Standard Arabic is widely taught in schools, universities, and used in workplaces, government and the media.
The Middle East is an area of major economic expansion, so there is a high demand for translation to and from Arabic.
Arabic Translation, Typesetting, Websites, Voice-Overs and Subtitles
Adelphi Translations Ltd. work translating Arabic to English and English to Arabic. We also produce voice recordings and subtitles for video in Arabic as well as translation and localisation of web sites into Arabic. We are based in Sheffield, UK and handle language projects for local clients in commercial centres such as Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow and London but also have many International clients from around the world.
Arabic Translation & Subtitles
