Somali Subtitling Services

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Somali is a part of the East Cushtic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family. It has 10-16 million native speakers and possibly half a million second language speakers mainly in Somali, where it is an official language, Ethiopia, Djibouti and Kenya. There are also noteworthy numbers of Somali speakers in Europe, North America and Yemen. The Somali language is spoken by ethnic Somalis in Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Yemen and Kenya, and by the Somali diaspora. It is also spoken as an adoptive language by a few ethnic minority groups and individuals in these areas. Somali is known as an official effective language in the Somali Region of Ethiopia. There were approx 16.6 million speakers of Somali, of which about 8.3 million resided in Somalia. The language is spoken by an predictable 95% of the country’s population, and also by a majority of the population in Djibouti.

LC, a Professional Subtitling Captioning service provider company with its head office in India and branch offices in USA, Germany, Australia & France, delivers Somali subtitling services with its team of more than 80 Somali professional native linguists worldwide. We provide multi-language subtitling to pre-recorded television programs, feature films, documentary films, webcasts and podcasts. LC transcription and subtitling team can add subtitles to programs with accuracy and speed. We use state of the art software that can render sub-titles in any colour, font or size ensuring that text changes while substance and context is retained.

At LC, we offer Somali subtitling services for following language pairs:

  • Somali to Somali Subtitling Services
  • Somali to English Subtitling Services
  • English to Somali Subtitling Services

Somali Subtitling & Captioning Services at LC

  • Fonts compatible with all major operating systems and platforms
  • Localization to suit traditional and cultural norms
  • Excellent editing for better readability and reading speed
  • 4-eye process (subtitling and review by two native professional linguists)
  • Qualified and experienced language professionals
  • High quality yet cost effective
  • Offered for all major video formats
  • Quick turnaround

Subtitling file formats supported by LC

  • Digital Video Files viz...WEBM, .MKV, .FLV, .VOB, .OGV, .OGG, .DRC, .GIF, .GIFV, .MNG, .AVI, .MOV, .QT, .WMV, .YUV, .RM, .RMVB, .ASF, .AMV, .MP4, .M4P (with DRM), .M4V, .MPG, .MP2, .MPEG, .MPE, .MPV, .MPG, .M2V, .M4V, .SVI, .3GP, .3G2, .MXF, .ROQ, .NSV, .FLV, .F4V, .F4P, .F4A, .F4B
  • Digital Audio Files viz...3GP, .AA, .AAC, .AAX, .ACT, .AIFF, .AMR, .APE, .AU, .AWB, .DCT, .DSS, .DVF, .FLAC, .GSM, .IKLAX, .IVS, .M4A, .M4B, .M4P, .MMF, .MP3, .OGA, .OPUS, .RA, .RM, .RAW, .SLN, .TTA, .VOX, .WAV, .WMA, .WV
  • Analogs (cassettes, CDs, DVDs, podcasts, videos)
  • .AQT, .GSUB, .JSS, .SUB, .TTXT, .SUB, .PJS, .PSB, .RT, .SMI, .STL, .SSF, .SRT, .SSA or .ASS, .SUB, .USF, .SUB + .IDX
  • Broadcast subtitle formats include: .PAC, .RAC, .CHK, .ESY, .XIF, .X32, .AYA, .890, .CIP, .CAP, .ULT, .USF, .CIN, .L32, .ST4, .ST7, .TIT, .STL
  • Standaloneor hard-coded subtitles depending on your video needs