Pronto’s African translation team can translate your document into any one of the continent’s 57 most spoken languages!
Whether you are sending a message throughout the African market as an advertisement, public relations or public service message, press release or slide presentation, we can deliver an accurately translated and localized document to your target audience — in any of Africa’s most frequently used languages.
We translate from English or French into any of the most commonly used African languages, or from any of these languages into English or French. In most cases, we can also translate from one African language to another when both languages are spoken in the same region. Please do not hesitate to ask about other language combinations should the need arise.
See our African Languages Translation Guide for a deep dive into understanding how to best approach this vast market.
Communicating with businesses and government agencies
These five languages will provide near 100% coverage for a pan-African business-to-business (B2B), business-to-government (B2G) or government-to-government (G2G) communication:
Arabic
English
French
Portuguese
Swahili
Communicating with consumers
For business-to-consumer messaging, adding these nine languages (for a total of 14 languages) will achieve 75- 80% coverage of the continent, with a concentration in Africa’s largest economy of Nigeria (Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo and Fulani):
(the main languages with more than 10 million speakers each)
Amharic
Fula/Fulfulde/Fulani/Peul/Pulaar
Igbo
Hausa
Malagasy
Oromo
Somali
Yoruba
Zulu
To increase coverage to 85-90%, with emphasis on deeper penetration into Africa’s number two economy of South Africa (Afrikaans and Xhosa), add these 8 languages:
(the main languages with between 7 and 10 million speakers each)
Afrikaans
Chewa/Chichewa
Kinyarwanda
Kirundi
Mossi/Mooré
Shona
Tigrinya
Xhosa
Other languages available through Pronto Translations, especially for regional or country-specific campaigns:
Acholi
Afar
Bambara
Baoulé
Bari
Bemba
Dinka
Ewe
Fante
Fon
Kalenjin
Kamba
Kikongo
Krio
Lingala
Luganda
Maay Maay
Mandingo
Mauritian Creole
Meru
Mozambican Portuguese
Ndebele
Northern Sotho
Nuer
Sesotho
Spanish
Swazi
Tigre
Tsonga
Tswana
Twi
Venda
Wolof
Adding an audio element to your translation
Add a podcast (MP3 file) to vastly expand your B2C reach into this 1.35-billion person market
Speakers of many African tongues much prefer to hear the message rather than read it. For any consumer outreach program to maximize its success, we can provide an MP3 file of your translated document read aloud by the translator at incremental additional cost. Please read our African Languages Translation Guide to understand the reasons for and the importance of including this element as part of your communication.
Your translation into any one of Africa’s 57 most spoken languages is completed by the team of native speakers for the selected language working hand-in-hand with our Language Matter Experts, yielding a document that has properly expressed the jargon of your industry or field as well as the language of your audience. Our translators live and work in the countries where the languages are spoken and keep up with the rapid evolution of the idiom as new scientific, technical and medical terms are introduced into the language.
Our translation and localization specializations into African languages
Advertisements
Annual reports
Charity interviews
Clinical research
Design briefs
Documentaries
Finance and banking
Healthcare
Human resources documentation
Legal contracts
Marketing documents
Medical devices
News articles
Polls and surveys
PowerPoint slides
Press releases
Product manuals
Public relations materials
Public service announcements
Our translators take into account the culture and cultural values, the idioms and dialects as well as the sense of humor of the intended audience. They are deeply aware that any lack of understanding of these key cultural differences could have a negative impact on the readers in the target market. For a full “one-stop-shop” solution, our desktop publishing team can provide the final document in HTML format for instant uploading to your or your client’s website — or in any one of a dozen popular applications, including Excel, InDesign, Illustrator, PDF, Photoshop and PowerPoint.
Pronto Translations works closely with several public relations and media firms in Africa, should assistance in marketing and distribution be needed.
