Afar

Afar translation services

Classification

Afro-Asiatic > Cushitic

Script

Roman

Text direction

Left-to-right

Speakers

1 million

Other names

Official language

Also spoken

Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti

Interesting Fact

According to the Dictionnaire Afar-Francais the Afar would appear to have interesting cultural issues with their hair. “Qibir” is the absence of oil in the hair and an individual suffering this is a “Qibiiro” (m) or “Qibiirá” (f).

Profile

Afar is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti. In Djibouti it is recognized as a national language, in Eritrea it is one of the nine national languages and it is also an official working language of the Afar region in Ethiopia.

Afar can be written in four different scripts, including Qafar Feera, a repurposed version of Latin characters created specifically for the Afar language.

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Services offered for this language

Translation / Transcreation / Subtitling / Localization / Adaptation / Copywriting / Authoring / Proofreading / Revision / Editing / Translation quality assurance / Terminology / Linguistic validation / Glossary creation / Dubbing / Voice-overs / Transcription / Typesetting / Simultaneous interpreting / Consecutive interpreting / Conference interpreting / Telephone interpreting / Public service interpreting / Interpreting equipment hire / Foreign language consulting

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