Languages We Cover
Legal aid translation is available across a wide range of language pairs used in UK legal matters. Availability depends on the required language pair, document type and deadline.
Most Requested Languages
These are the languages most frequently required for legal aid translation in England and Wales. We cover all of these with specialist legal translators available for immediate assignment.
- Arabic
- Bengali
- Cantonese
- Czech
- Dari
- Farsi
- French
- German
- Greek
- Gujarati
- Hindi
- Hungarian
- Italian
- Japanese
- Korean
- Kurdish (Kurmanji)
- Kurdish (Sorani)
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Mandarin
- Nepali
- Pashto
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Punjabi
- Romanian
- Russian
- Sinhala
- Slovak
- Somali
- Spanish
- Swahili
- Sylheti
- Tamil
- Thai
- Tigrinya
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Urdu
- Vietnamese
African Languages
Amharic • Hausa • Igbo • Kinyarwanda • Kirundi • Lingala • Oromo • Shona • Somali • Swahili • Tigrinya • Yoruba • Zulu
Middle Eastern Languages
Arabic (Modern Standard) • Arabic (Iraqi) • Arabic (Sudanese) • Arabic (Syrian) • Arabic (Libyan) • Farsi • Hebrew • Kurdish (Kurmanji) • Kurdish (Sorani) • Pashto • Turkish
Asian Languages
Bengali • Cantonese • Dari • Gujarati • Hindi • Japanese • Korean • Mandarin • Nepali • Punjabi • Sinhala • Sylheti • Tamil • Thai • Urdu • Vietnamese
European Languages
Albanian • Bulgarian • Czech • Dutch • French • German • Greek • Hungarian • Italian • Latvian • Lithuanian • Polish • Portuguese • Romanian • Russian • Serbian • Slovak • Spanish • Ukrainian
Rare & Less Common Languages
We also cover languages that are less commonly available, including Balochi, Fur, Hazaragi, Krio, Manding, Rohingya, Soninke, Temne, Wolof, and many others. For languages with limited translator availability, the LAA may authorise enhanced rates. Contact us to discuss your requirements — we maintain a network of specialist linguists for even the most challenging language combinations.
Why Language Expertise Matters
Many languages have significant regional variations that affect legal translation. Arabic spoken in Sudan differs from Arabic spoken in Syria. Kurdish Kurmanji and Kurdish Sorani are distinct languages with different scripts. Choosing the wrong dialect can result in a translation that the intended reader cannot understand — or worse, one that contains errors because the translator was not familiar with the specific regional variant.
When you order from us, we match your documents to a translator who speaks the correct regional variant. For asylum cases, we match by country of origin — not just by language. This ensures the highest possible accuracy and avoids the credibility issues that can arise from dialect mismatches in translated evidence.
Need a language not listed here?
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Order Your Translation in Any Language
A wide range of language pairs is available. Upload your documents and provide the required language pair and deadline for review.