Certified Translation Edinburgh for Slovenia

Words that have no Slovenian twin

How Scottish register vocabulary crosses into Slovenian without a meaning being invented on the way.

In this guide

Certified translation in Edinburgh for use in Slovenia
The language Slovenia requires
Certification Slovenia accepts
Per-page cost and turnaround
Acceptance in Slovenia

Certified translation in Edinburgh for use in Slovenia

Most of a Scottish record crosses over without argument. A date is a date and a name is a name. The trouble sits in a handful of words: what the sheet is called, which office issued it, which district it belongs to. Handle those badly and a Slovenian reader ends up with a confident answer that happens to be wrong.

The language Slovenia requires

Slovenian is the language to work into, and Slovenia settles that rather than you. Working into English, or into a language spoken nearby, does not meet it. The whole sheet goes across, printed headings and all, so a reader with no English can follow the record from the top of the page to the foot of it unaided.

Certification Slovenia accepts

The pages have to carry the signature of a court-appointed translator, the sodni tolmač. That standing is what turns a good translation into an official one for Slovenian purposes. It also puts a name against every judgement call about a term with no direct counterpart, which is why those choices are made in the open rather than smoothed over.

Per-page cost and turnaround

Work is priced at £25 a page and the total is given before typing starts. Standard turnaround is 2–4 business days once a clear scan is in hand, and the express route closes the same job in 24–48 hours. Neither figure moves because a sheet turns out to be wordy or awkward.

Acceptance in Slovenia

Hand the Slovenian pages in with the extract they were typed from. A reader in Slovenia can then set the Scottish term and its Slovenian explanation side by side, which is what stops a bracketed word looking like a slip of the keyboard. Nothing on the sheet is left for anyone to guess at.

Edinburgh → Slovenia translation FAQ

Why not just use the nearest Slovenian word?

Because the nearest word usually belongs to a different system and drags a meaning nobody intended. A Scottish extract comes from a registration service working under Scottish rules, and dropping in the name of a Slovenian body would tell a reader something untrue. So a certified translation into Slovenian in Edinburgh keeps the original term in view and explains it in plain Slovenian beside it.

Which words cause the trouble?

The names of the offices that issued the paper, the label the record itself carries, and the local district names printed on it. Scotland registers births, marriages and deaths in its own way, and its vocabulary follows from that. A certified translation in Edinburgh for Slovenia therefore reads a little longer in places, because a short false friend has given way to an accurate phrase.

Who signs the Slovenian pages?

A sworn Slovenian translator in Edinburgh does. Slovenia looks for the sodni tolmač standing on work of this kind, so the pages carry a named person who answers for the wording. That counts for more than usual here. The choices about untranslatable terms are judgement calls, and the signature is what puts a name against them.

What does it cost and how long does it take?

The rate is £25 a page, quoted before typing begins. Standard work runs 2–4 business days from a legible scan, and express closes the same job in 24–48 hours. A certified translation for Slovenia costs the same whichever record it is, so the careful term work described above does not add to the figure you were given.

Where do I get a clean copy of a Scottish entry?

Edinburgh Registration Service, at City Chambers, 253 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1YP, is where certified extracts of Scottish civil records come from — birth, marriage and death. An extract holds the entry as the register has it, so it can go abroad while your own copy stays put. An official Slovenian translation in Edinburgh is then typed from that extract.

Four steps to your Slovenia-ready translation

No office visits, no queues. The entire process is handled remotely and you track every step in real time.

Prepare your document

Gather the original document you need translated and note the language it must be translated into.