Ten languages, in any direction between them. Each is certified only where a second reader inside EnLatin can check every word.
The ten
Each is handled by a credentialed specialist in that language and in the kind of document you are sending. What follows is a guide to what each language’s documents actually demand.
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.
Both United States and international English. 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.
And Ancient Greek
Attic, Homeric, Aeolic, Ionic, Doric and Koine, handled by the same specialist team as Latin — inscriptions, manuscripts, patristic and liturgical material, and academic research. Offered as a scholarly language and 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
The certification is valid in all directions among the ten languages. Whether it’s translating an English contract into Greek, a Turkish court ruling into German, or a Latin dedication for something you’re writing — each bears an EnLatin stamp containing a certificate of accuracy signed by the senior philologist who approved the work, a statement of truth signed by the translator confirming that the translation is complete and correct, and a verifiable order code.
If your language is not here
Ten languages is a limit we hold on purpose. 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 a direct answer and, where we can give it, a suggestion of where to look. That costs us the order and keeps the promise intact.
EnLatin is certified to ISO 17100:2015 for translation services (TÜV SÜD, certificate No. 9931000357) and to ISO/IEC 27001:2022 for information security management (TÜV NORD, certificate No. 44121231258).
The ten languages, in every direction
Every pair below is served by a qualified specialist and certified by a senior philologist. Choose a language to see what its documents demand. Every pair works in both directions — and between the non-English languages directly, without passing through English.
Latin ⇄ English, and Latin everywhere
University diplomas and transcripts in Latin are a 24-hour service — see the diploma desk — alongside parish registers, manuscripts, and research texts on the general Latin desk.
Greek ⇄ English
The busiest pair on our desk. Civil-registry acts — ληξιαρχικές πράξεις, πιστοποιητικά, family record extracts — along with Lykeio transcripts and university records for DOATAP and admissions files. Rendering of names follows your passport exactly, which is what consulates check first.
Turkish ⇄ English
Nüfus kayıt örneği, aile cüzdanı pages, YÖK diplomas, and court papers move between Turkish and English daily. Where a Turkish authority expects a yeminli tercüme we say so before you order, and where certified translation suffices we say that too.
German ⇄ English
Handelsregister excerpts, contracts, and certificates of good conduct, prepared with the precision German documents assume. German authorities often ask for a beglaubigte Übersetzung by a sworn translator; we will tell you plainly when that appointment is required and when our certification is accepted.
Italian ⇄ English
Comune records, estratto per riassunto dai registri, notarial deeds, and academic transcripts from the Ministry of Education. Italian filings sometimes call for asseverazione before a court clerk — we flag it when your destination does.
Spanish ⇄ English
Registro civil certificates, academic records, and commercial papers in both directions. For use inside Spain, a traductor jurado is often mandatory; for USCIS and most universities, our certified translation is exactly what they ask for.
Portuguese ⇄ English
Certidões from the conservatória, civil registry records, and Brazilian academic documents, certified for consulates, universities, and employers. Brazilian and European Portuguese are handled as the distinct varieties they are.
French ⇄ English
État civil records, notarial instruments, and academic files between France, the francophone world, and English-speaking authorities. Where a cour d'appel assermenté is required we will say so — and where it is not, we will not sell you one.
Russian ⇄ English
ЗАГС certificates, academic records, and notarized instruments, with apostille guidance for the receiving country. Names are transliterated to match your passport, and the original Cyrillic is noted wherever it differs.