Ten languages, in any direction between them. Ten — and not an eleventh, because a language we cannot check is a language we will not certify.
The ten
Each is handled by a credentialed specialist in that language and in the kind of document you are sending. What follows is not a list of language names but of what each one’s documents actually demand.
Both United States and international English, and the difference matters more than it looks: a date written 03/04, a decimal comma, a "first floor" that is the ground floor elsewhere. Target register is set to the receiving country, not to a default.
Peninsular and Latin American Spanish, which are not one language for official purposes: a Mexican acta de nacimiento and a Spanish certificado literal are different documents with different apparatus. Spain requires a traductor jurado appointed by its Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and we will say so when it applies.
One of our home languages. Civil registry documents — the ληξιαρχική πράξη and its several near-relatives, which are not interchangeable — along with court papers, notarial acts, and the diaspora paperwork that moves between Greece, Cyprus and everywhere Greeks have settled. Transliteration of names is decided against your passport, not against a chart.
The other home language. Documents from the nüfus registry, notarial instruments, YÖK credentials and court papers — with the several different extracts a Turkish registry issues from one record, which look alike and are not. We will tell you if you have been given the wrong one.
The register of the beglaubigte Übersetzung: notarial deeds, commercial register extracts, court decisions, and the compound nouns that carry a whole clause inside one word. German authorities generally require a court-appointed translator, and we say so before you order rather than after.
Civil records, court decisions, corporate filings and academic credentials, with attention to the asseverazione process where a filing requires it. Italian bureaucratic prose is a register of its own, and a translator who reads only literary Italian will produce something fluent and unusable.
For France, Belgium, Québec and the francophone administrative world, including the traducteur assermenté requirement where a French authority insists on it. Canadian French and metropolitan French differ in exactly the places official documents live.
European and Brazilian Portuguese, distinguished for the same reason. Civil registry documents, academic records, and the certidão family in its various forms, for Portugal, Brazil and the lusophone world.
Civil and academic records from Russia and the CIS, including Soviet-era certificates whose issuing authorities no longer exist and whose institutional names must be rendered as they stood at the time rather than as they are now called.
The language EnLatin was founded on, and its principal specialty. Diplomas and degree certificates, notarial instruments, ecclesiastical and parish records, medical and scientific texts, manuscripts, charters and inscriptions — classical through to the institutional Latin still written today. Handled personally by the founder, never subcontracted. The Latin desk in full.
And Ancient Greek
Attic, Homeric, Aeolic, Ionic, Doric and Koine, handled at the same desk as Latin — inscriptions, manuscripts, patristic and liturgical material, and academic research. Not an eleventh service language but a scholarly one, quoted individually. Occasionally something older still arrives: a papyrus fragment, a custom hand. Those are looked at case by case, and if the right reader is a specialist elsewhere, we will tell you so.
Any direction, not only into English
Certification applies in every direction between the ten. An English contract into Greek, a Turkish judgment into German, a Latin dedication for something you are writing — each carries the same signed statement, stamp and verifiable code as a translation into English.
If your language is not here
We will not take it, and we will not quietly find somebody. Ten languages is a limit rather than a stage we are passing through: every one of them can be checked by a second reader inside EnLatin, and certification means nothing if the person signing it cannot verify the work. A provider who accepts any language is telling you they subcontract to strangers.
If you write to us with a document in a language we do not handle, you will get an honest answer and, where we can give it, a suggestion of where to look. That costs us the order and keeps the promise intact.