Did you know that Southeast Asia is one of the most linguistically diverse places in the world? The region is occupied by various countries, each with their own national language, but even within these individual countries, dozens or even hundreds of distinct languages abound. Let’s take Vietnam and Cambodia, for example: Cambodia is home to around two dozen languages, while Vietnam has more than 100. Among those many languages, we find Jarai.
Jarai is the native language of 530,000 people, as of 2019, although this only includes speakers in Vietnam and Cambodia. The true number is thus higher, since there are Jarai-speaking communities in other countries, such as the United States, where many Jarai-speaking refugees settled following the Vietnam War. Jarai is a major minority language in the region, recognized as such in both Vietnam and Cambodia, but translation services for Jarai are hard to come by—so we at TranslationServices.com decided to launch our own Jarai translation services.
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Jarai: a language shared by Vietnam and Cambodia
Jarai goes by many names, including Cho-Rai, Chor, Chrai, Djarai, Gia-Rai, Gio-Rai, Jorai, or Mthur. It straddles the border between Vietnam and Cambodia, forming the largest ethnic group in Vietnam’s Central Highlands region and accounting for 25% of the population in Cambodia’s Ratanakiri Province. This makes Jarai a major language in the region, although it’s completely unlike Vietnamese or Khmer. While the two national languages belong to the Austroasiatic family, Jarai is a member of the Austronesian family, which dominates Indonesia, Malaysia, and Oceania. This means that both its vocabulary and grammar are worlds apart from Vietnamese and Khmer, although naturally, the language has picked up influence from both major languages.
As a member of the Chamic branch of the Austronesian language family, Jarai is related to Cham, another major indigenous language in Vietnam and Cambodia. Jarai and Cham constitute the two largest languages in the Chamic subgroup. Despite not being related, Jarai’s grammar does share similarities with Vietnamese and Khmer—namely, it’s an isolating language, which means it exhibits little to no inflection. This doesn’t mean it’s “easy,” though—it means that word order is incredibly important, and there’s more room for ambiguity. In Vietnam, Jarai is written in the Latin alphabet, while in Cambodia, it’s often written in the native Khmer script. Whichever standard you’re aiming for, native-speaking Jarai translators, like those on our team, can help you.
What kind of Jarai translation services would you like?
To bring you the best Jarai translation services we can, we’ve hired Jarai translators from different areas of Vietnam’s Central Highlands and Cambodia’s Ratanakiri Province, as well as Jarai translators from the diaspora in the US. Our Jarai translators are eager to help clients from around the world access the Jarai translation services they seek, whether that means translation services from English to Jarai or translation services from Jarai to English.
If you want specialty Jarai translation services—in the realms of academia, business, literature, or another domain—we’d be happy to help. We’ve hired translators who have expertise in different areas of translation, so if you’re an academic, why not work with our academic translators, who cover a wide range of disciplines? If you’re a businessperson, our business translators would love to help you broaden your business opportunities with Jarai translation services. And if you’re a creative, whether that means writing novels, poems, blogs, or something else, our literary translators are here to carefully translate your messages while leaving your unique writing style intact. And don’t worry if your text deals with esoteric subject matter—we’ve hired translators who are experts in different fields!
Why not send us a message today to get started with Jarai translation services? Our Jarai translators are waiting!