Lingoproz Live! A passion for language – The mag for language professionals by Lingoproz.co.za

This blog is part of Lingoproz.co.za, Africa’s only online platform for language professionals. It offers a selection of hand-picked language-related articles we’ve dug up on the web for you. We further look forward to presenting a column by our very own Jo Jordan shortly and also invite members of Lingoproz.co.za to submit your own articles – your opportunity to fill this space with papers ranging from academic to humorous that you would like to share with the community of language service providers. Please email your articles to us along with a brief summary and two or three sentences about yourself.

To make use of our site’s many other useful features please visit www.lingoproz.co.za. Here you will find a tool to search and offer language services in South Africa and the rest of the continent and a terminology forum where members can discuss terminology, grammar, idioms, culture etc. concerning their language with colleagues. The platform aims to keep you up-to-date with happenings in the sector with the calendar of events, support you in your daily challenges with the index of resources and, finally, it rounds off the information package with the encyclopaedia of languages and language services. If you know of any events or resources you would like us to add, please send us an email.

Meanwhile, enjoy the mag!
The Lingoproz team

P.S.: Please remember the views represented in the articles are not necessarily those of Lingoproz. We publish these articles merely as a service to you, for your information and enjoyment.

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Languages and Services

The main site www.lingoproz.co.za features more than 100 languages and 20 service categories. Currently these are:

Afrikaans, Amharic (Abyssinian, Ethiopian), Arabic, Bambara (Bamanankan), Bemba (Chibemba), Bengali, Chinese: Mandarin, Chinese: Min, Chinese: Wu, Chinese: Yue (Cantonese), Chokwe, Danish (Dansk), Dutch (Nederlands), Egyptian Spoken Arabic, English, Estonian (Eesti), Éwé, Fanagalo, Farsi (Persian), Finnish (Suomi), Flemish (Vlaams), French (Français), French Creoles, Fulfulde (Fula), Ganda (Luganda), German (Deutsch), Greek, Greek (classical), Gujarati, Hassaniya, Hausa, Hebrew, Hebrew (biblical), Hindi, Igbo (Ibo), Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kabiyé, Kabuverdianu (Caboverdiano), Kanuri, Khoe (Kxoe), Khoisan (San / Khoesan), Kituba (Munukutuba), Kongo (Kikongo), Korean, Kwanyama (Kuanyama), Latin, Latvian (Lettish), Lingala (Ngala), Lobedu (Khilobedu), Luo, Makhuwa, Malagasy (Malgache), Marathi, Mbunda, Mbundu, Nama, Ndau, Ndebele (isiNdebele, Southern Ndebele), Northern Ndebele (Sindebele), Norwegian (Bokmål), Nyanja (Chinyanja) / Chewa, Oromo, Oshiwambo, Phuthi (Siphuthi), Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese Creoles, Principense, Punjabi, Rundi (Kirundi), Russian (Russki), Rwanda (Kinyarwanda), SA Sign Language, Sango, Sanskrit, São Tomense, Sena, Sepedi (Northern Sotho), Seselwa Creole French, Sesotho (Southern Sotho), Setswana (Tswana), Shona (Chishona), SiSwati (Swati), Somali, Spanish (Español, Castellano), Swahili (Kiswahili), Swedish (Svenska), Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Thai, Tigrigna (Tigrinya), Tshiluba (Luba-Lulua), Tsonga (Xitsonga), Tumbuka, Turkish (Türkçe), Ukrainian, Urdu, Venda (Tshivenda), Vietnamese, Wolof, Xhosa (isiXhosa), Yoruba, Zarma, Zulu (isiZulu).

Translation & writing services: Copywriting, Dubbing / voiceover, Editing / proofreading, Indexing / terminology, Localization / globalization, Sworn translation, Transcription, Translation, Writing consultation; Interpretation services: Consecutive interpreting, Court interpreting, Simultaneous interpreting, Telephone / video interpreting, Training services, One-on-one training, Group training, Scheduled classes, Seminars / workshops, Lectures / speeches, Accent / dialect coaching, Language travel & leisure.

Can’t spot your language in the list? Some languages have several names. We have sorted them by the most commonly used name and included alternatives in brackets. If you are uncertain, try searching the text on the pages with “Ctrl + F” (“find” function in most browsers).