Romansh translator

We translate all five historical idioms — Sursilvan, Vallader, Puter, Surmiran and Sutsilvan — and the standard variety Rumantsch Grischun. Our translator recognises the right idiom in your source document, because spelling and vocabulary differ considerably between them. Which idiom or variety we hold to is confirmed in the quote.

The UK has no sworn-translator institute, so there is no "sworn translator" as a legal office here. For official acceptance we provide certified translation: a signed and dated statement of accuracy from the translator or the agency, with our contact details. Where a body asks for more, this can be escalated to notarisation by a solicitor or notary public, or to an apostille or legalisation through the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), often paired with an apostille on the Swiss source document under the Hague Convention of 1961. We confirm in the quote which level your receiving authority requires.

Common cases are Swiss certificates (birth, marriage), cantonal extracts and attestations from Graubünden, diplomas for UK ENIC recognition, contracts and cultural or tourism content. Romansh is a small language area, so we arrange the right route — where helpful via Swiss German or French as the source language. We confirm the approach, idiom and any certification per document in the quote.

On working days you receive a quote within 1 hour. The lead time for the translation itself depends on document type, volume, idiom and any required certification, and is confirmed in the quote. For tight deadlines we confirm a workable rush schedule up front rather than promising a fixed turnaround.

We combine specialist translators with a Romansh background with a structured QA layer: an idiom check, an accent and encoding check, a terminology list and a second review where the legal field, risk profile or volume requires it. This is how we prevent idiom confusion and false friends with Italian or Latin. A translation memory keeps follow-up work aligned and lowers the cost over time.

Romansh is a small language area with five idioms, so finding the right translator takes real knowledge of the language. A Romansh translation agency takes that coordination off your hands: we select the translator who commands the right idiom, arrange certification, notarisation or an FCDO apostille where an authority requires it, and have the work checked by a second reviewer. You keep one point of contact for idiom, terminology, scheduling and delivery, all under a single quote. A skilled freelance translator does excellent work too; the difference an agency adds is bringing those moving parts together so you are not managing them separately.