Native Name: 白话/白話 (Baak6waa2)
Number of Speakers: 100 million
Official language of: Hong Kong, Macau, S. China
Script used: Chinese
Sample of Cantonese
When translating Chinese to English there are some things that have to be taken into consideration such as cultural differences and literal differences. It is always important to understand exactly who the target audience are, in order to help the translator to tailor their style to the end user.
Translation and typesetting Cantonese
Adelphi has been typesetting Chinese in both Mandarin and Cantonese for over ten years. Our in-house Chinese proofreader ensures that your Chinese typesetting is as accurate as possible. Chinese typesetting uses standardised fonts but there are two types Traditional(Cantonese) and Simplified (Mandarin) and the correct font must be used. Adelphi are happy to organise the translation for you or to use a translation provided by yourselves.
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Traditional Chinese (Cantonese) translation and typesetting example
English to Chinese website translation and conversion
As well as Translating English to Chinese we also convert websites into both the Chinese writing systems. Below is an example of a website we translated and converted. At Adelphi we do not charge extra for the actual conversion of the website.
Chinese engineering website translation and localisation
Cantonese Translation, Typesetting, Websites, Voice-Overs and Subtitles
Adelphi Translations Ltd. work translating Cantonese to English and English to Cantonese. We also produce voice recordings and subtitles for video in Cantonese as well as translation and localisation of web sites into Cantonese. 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.
Chinese subtitle translation and production
Cantonese is a tonal language spoken in southern China, Hong Kong and Macau. As the name implies, it originated in the area around the city of Canton (Guangzhou) and is now the most widely spoken Chinese language. It shares a lot of vocabulary with the other major Chinese language, Mandarin, but the two are not mutually intelligible due to major differences in pronunciation. Cantonese is also a much older language than Mandarin, with a history of at least 2,000 years. It is also known as Yue.
It is usually written using the traditional Chinese character set. Cantonese is also widely spoken in Malaysia, Singapore and wherever Chinese migrants from the Guangzhou province have settled, including Canada and the UK. There are seven tones used in Cantonese.
