World Translation Center offers professional Egyptian Arabic translation services for English to Egyptian Arabic and Egyptian Arabic to English. We can also translate Egyptian Arabic to and from over 130 other languages, including all the principal languages of Europe, Asia, South America, the Middle East and a variety of African languages, at competitive rates.
Our Egyptian Arabic experts have the ability to provide translation for virtually any project you might have, including marketing materials, technical, financial, legal and medical documents, websites and software. Our skilled project managers will match your project with a translator team most appropriate for the area of expertise needed. Each individual linguist works exclusively in his or her own mother tongue and within his or her field of expertise guaranteeing not only quality translation, but proper localization at the same time. After each document is translated, it will be edited and proofread by a second professional translator to assure highest possible quality.
We also render transcription, video recording and subtitling services. Should you need to have an existing video dubbed, a commercial narrated or a telephone system recorded, our native Egyptian Arabic speakers are available to provide you with expert voiceover services.
We pride ourselves in furnishing quality cost-effective services, whether your project is small or large, simple or highly complex.
Egyptian Arabic Information
Arabic is the largest member of the Semitic language family. It is spoken in the north and the horn of Africa, as well as the Middle East. Countries in these areas were Arabic is spoken are: Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Cyprus, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Oman, Palestinian West Bank & Gaza Strip, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan and Yemen.
Egyptian Arabic Language Facts
"Colloquial Arabic" is a term used to refer to the spoken languages or dialects of people throughout the Arab world, which is different from the literary language. The main dialectal division is between that in the Maghreb region ( in the north of Africa) and those of the Middle East, but another one exists between sedentary dialects and the Bedouin dialects. Speakers of Middle Eastern dialects are unable to communicate effectively with Maghrebis, but Maghrebis do not have such trouble understanding the Middle Easteners, mainly because of the popularity of media and films originated in the Middle East, especially Egypt.
Writing Egyptian Arabic
There are two main types of written Arabic:
Classical Arabic - the language of the Qur'an and classical literature, it was originally the dialect of the Mecca in what is currently Saudi Arabia. It differs from Modern Standard Arabic mainly in vocabulary and style, in that it is more archaic.
Modern Standard Arabic - the universal language of the Arabic-speaking world which is understood by all Arabic speakers (it is used between educated Arabs of different nationalities when conversing with each other). It is also the language of the vast majority of written material such as books and newspapers and of formal TV shows, lectures, etc.
Words are written in horizontal lines from right to left, numerals are written from left to right.
Most letters change form depending on whether they appear at the beginning, middle or end of a word, or on their own.
The Arabic alphabet contains 28 letters. Some additional letters are used in Arabic when writing names of places or foreign words containing sounds which do not exist in Standard Arabic, such as /p/ or /g/.
