Bemba Translation

World Translation Center provides professional Bemba translation services for English to Bemba and Bemba to English. We can also translate Bemba to and from over 130 other languages, including all the principal languages of Europe, Asia, South America, the Middle East and a number of African languages, at affordable rates.

Our Bemba professionals have the ability to provide translation for any project you might have, including marketing materials, technical, financial, legal and medical documents, websites and software. Our experienced project managers will match your project with a translator team appropriate for the field of expertise required. Each individual linguist works solely 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 an additional professional translator to ensure highest possible quality.

We also provide 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 Bemba speakers are available to furnish expert voiceover services.

We pride ourselves in delivering high quality cost-effective services, whether your project is small or large, simple or highly complex.

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Bemba Information

The Republic of Zambia is located in the center of the southern part of Africa. The official language is English and recognized languages are Nyanja, Bemba, Tonga, Lunda, Lozi, Luvale and Kaonde. Bemba is the most widely spoken language in Zambia.

Bemba Language Facts

The Bemba language is a Bantu language which is primarily spoken by the Bemba people and various related ethnic groups. After Nyanja, Bemba is the second-most spoken language in Zambia. It is also spoken by the Bemba people residing in regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zimbabwe.

In the early 1800s, traders from Portugal and Arab speaking countries visited Bemba-speaking regions, and as a result, Bemba uses a number of loan words both Portuguese and Arabic. Through missionary contact and through direct contact with Swahili-speaking people, many Swahili words are part of modern Bemba.

Since contact with English-speaking people began to intensify in the late 1800s, a large number of English-derived words have entered Bemba. In addition, Christian evangelization, and Bible translations also influenced the Bemba language as well as Afrikaans and Zulu.

Writing Bemba

Bemba uses the Latin alphabet.

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