# Amharic Translation Services

> Amharic translation services for documents from Ethiopia, with Ethiopian calendar dates and names read right. Native human translators, USCIS certified.

https://roxotranslations.com/amharic-translation/

Roxo Translations offers Amharic translation services for documents from Ethiopia and from the Ethiopian communities of the United States, Canada, Israel and Europe, to and from English, Arabic, Italian and Russian. Every translation is done by a human translator, native in the target language, and reviewed by a second one, never by machine translation.

Send a photo or scan of the document, see the price and the deadline instantly, and receive the translation as a PDF. For the United States it comes certified and accepted by USCIS, with the signed statement and notarization included, and every date in the Ethiopian calendar is read correctly.

- Amharic in the Ge’ez script, in both directions
- Certified for USCIS, with notarization included
- Instant online quote and fast delivery

## Where Amharic is spoken and where your translation is accepted

Amharic is a working language of the federal government of Ethiopia, the official language of the Amhara region and the everyday language of Addis Ababa. It has more than 30 million native speakers, and millions more in Ethiopia speak it as a second language. Large communities also live abroad: in the United States, from the Washington, D.C. area to Little Ethiopia in Los Angeles, and in Canada, Israel, Italy and the Gulf countries. The destination decides the type of translation.

| Where | What you need |
|---|---|
| United States: USCIS, courts, universities and employers | [Certified translation](https://roxotranslations.com/certified-translation/) into English, with the signed statement of accuracy and notarization included |
| Brazil: notary offices, universities and public agencies | [Sworn translation](https://roxotranslations.com/pt/traducao-juramentada/) into Portuguese, signed by a public sworn translator and valid nationwide. For Amharic, we confirm before quoting whether it goes through English |
| Ethiopia, Canada, Israel, Italy and other countries | Ask the receiving authority which format it accepts: documents for Ethiopia usually go through legalization, and we tell you the options before quoting, including the [Hague apostille](https://roxotranslations.com/apostille/) when it applies |
| Embassies, consulates and immigration processes | The translation into the language the authority asks for, with the legalization or the apostille on the original when it is required |

## Amharic language pairs we translate

These are the language pairs with Amharic that we translate today, in both directions.

- [Amharic to Arabic](https://roxotranslations.com/arabic-translation/)
- [Amharic to English](https://roxotranslations.com/english-translation/)
- [Amharic to Italian](https://roxotranslations.com/italian-translation/)
- [Amharic to Russian](https://roxotranslations.com/russian-translation/)
- [Arabic to Amharic](https://roxotranslations.com/arabic-translation/)
- [English to Amharic](https://roxotranslations.com/english-translation/)
- [Italian to Amharic](https://roxotranslations.com/italian-translation/)
- [Russian to Amharic](https://roxotranslations.com/russian-translation/)

Need a pair that is not on the list? Talk to us: we answer within one hour, 7 days a week.

## Amharic translation services for documents from Ethiopia

Amharic has regional varieties, such as those of Gondar, Gojjam, Wollo and Shewa, and the standard written language follows the speech of Addis Ababa. What changes most from one document to another is not the dialect but the script, the names and the calendar, and a good translation reads each of them correctly.

- Script: Amharic is written in the Ge’ez script, called fidel, in which each character joins a consonant and a vowel. It has more than 30 basic characters, each in seven forms, so ለ, ሉ, ሊ, ላ, ሌ, ል and ሎ are lä, lu, li, la, le, lə and lo.
- Names: Ethiopians have no family surname. A person has a given name, followed by the father’s given name and often the grandfather’s, as in Abebe Bikila, and a married woman keeps her own name. US forms usually treat the father’s name as the last name, so tell us the form used in your US documents when you order.
- Spelling in Latin letters: there is no single way to write Amharic names in English, so the same person can appear as Tesfaye or Tesfay, and Haile or Hayle. The translation keeps every name exactly as in the original, and the spelling of your passport is the reference.
- Calendar and time: Ethiopian documents use the Ethiopian calendar, with twelve months of 30 days and a thirteenth month, Pagume, of 5 or 6 days. The year begins on September 11, or September 12 in some years, and runs 7 or 8 years behind the Gregorian one, so 23 Meskerem 2019 is October 3, 2026. Hours are counted from 6 in the morning, so 1 o’clock in Ethiopian time is 7 a.m.
- Documents: the birth certificate, the marriage certificate, court decisions and the ID card issued by the kebele, the local administration office, are the most common, and many recent records are bilingual in Amharic and English. The translation reproduces every stamp, seal and note.

## The history of the Amharic language

Amharic is a Semitic language, of the same family as Tigrinya, Arabic and Hebrew, and it grew in the highlands of central Ethiopia. Its script comes from Ge’ez, the language of the ancient kingdom of Aksum, which became the written language of the Ethiopian state and church and remains the liturgical language of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.

From the late 13th century, the kings of the Solomonic dynasty used Amharic at court, and it became known as the language of the king. The oldest known texts in Amharic are royal songs from the 14th century, but for centuries Ge’ez remained the written language. In the 19th century, Emperor Tewodros II had his chronicles written in Amharic, and in the 20th century it became the language of the state and of schools.

Today Amharic has more than 30 million native speakers. It is a working language of the federal government of Ethiopia, and it travels with the Ethiopian communities of the United States, Canada, Israel and Europe, whose birth, marriage and school records are still translated for immigration, study and family matters.

## We also translate other languages

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