Igbo translator

An Igbo translation agency such as Ecrivus arranges certification on request. The UK has no sworn-translator institute, so 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 FCDO. Igbo specialists are relatively few, so we confirm the approach per document in the quote.

We agree the dialect with you up front. For official and NGO texts we usually use standardised Igbo Izugbe, based on the central Owerri dialect. For readers from the Onitsha or Ngwa areas we deliberately choose different word choices, because the standard form is not read fluently by every speaker.

Common cases are asylum accounts and supporting documents for Home Office and UKVI procedures, birth, marriage and death certificates for family reunification and settlement, diplomas assessed by UK ENIC, and trade correspondence with South-East Nigeria. We confirm the approach and any certification per document in the quote.

Igbo is a tonal language in which high and low tones plus downstep distinguish meaning. Our native translator reads each word in context and marks tones with diacritics where they are needed for meaning. We translate consistently in the Onwu orthography and normalise dotted letters and older spelling variants.

On working days you receive a quote within 1 hour. The lead time for the translation itself depends on document type, volume, dialect and any required certification, and is confirmed in the quote rather than promised as a fixed turnaround.

An Igbo translation agency takes the coordination off your hands. We select the native specialist who fits your document, dialect and field, arrange certification, notarisation or legalisation where an authority requires it, and have the work checked at review. You keep one point of contact for dialect, 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.