Galician translator

No. Galician is an independent Romance language and a co-official language of Galicia alongside Castilian Spanish. In vocabulary it sits closer to Portuguese. As a Galician translation agency we establish, per document, whether the source text is Galician, Spanish or bilingual before we set the approach, because many official documents from Galicia carry both languages.

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). We confirm in the quote which level your receiving authority requires.

Common requests are civil-status certificates (birth, marriage), diplomas from Galician universities such as USC, UDC and UVigo, judgments and administrative documents from the Xunta de Galicia, and trade documents from the fishing and agri-food sector. For each document type we confirm the approach and any certification in the quote, and we check first whether the source is in Galician or in Spanish.

On working days you receive a quote within 1 hour. The lead time for the translation itself depends on document type, volume, language pair and any required certification, and is confirmed in the quote. Galician-English is a niche pair, so for certified work we sometimes ask for a little extra lead time, which we set out in the quote rather than promising a fixed turnaround.

Alongside the official RAG norm there is a reintegrationist spelling that sits closer to Portuguese. Our translator recognises which norm your source document uses and holds to it consistently, so the text stays internally coherent. We treat dialect features such as gheada and seseo as a record of the source and do not wrongly correct them.

A Galician translation agency takes the coordination off your hands. Because Galician is a small niche, sourcing a suitable translator yourself often takes time. We select the specialist who fits your document, check the source language first, arrange certification, notarisation or legalisation where an authority requires it, and have the work checked by a second reviewer. You keep one point of contact for source-language checks, 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.