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Middle Eastern and Central Asian languages

Arabic, Farsi, Dari, Pashto, Turkish, Armenian and the languages of Central Asia and the Caucasus.

From the Caucasus to Afghanistan

The SILA Linguists® network spans the major languages of the region, including Arabic, Farsi, Turkish, Hebrew and Armenian, together with the core languages of Afghanistan: Dari, Pashto, Hazaragi and Pamiri. In the Caucasus we work in Georgian, Mingrelian, Chechen, Ingush, Avar, Abkhaz and Circassian; in Central Asia in Uzbek, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Turkmen and Uyghur. Balochi, Mazandarani, Gilaki, Luri, Syriac and Mandaic round out the list.

Dari from Kabul and Farsi from Tehran are mutually intelligible, but official vocabulary and everyday expressions differ, so we choose interpreters by the speaker's country of origin rather than by language label alone. These communities are well established in the UK, Germany, Sweden, Canada, the United States and Australia.

An interpreter for every setting

An asylum interview, a GP consultation or a home visit from a social worker usually calls for a face-to-face interpreter. When something is urgent, our telephone interpreters answer day and night, all year round, and video interpreting runs on our app or on the platform you prefer. Business negotiations, conferences and diplomatic forums are covered with consecutive, simultaneous or RSI interpreting, and we also provide community and escort interpreting. Many Afghan and Iranian women prefer a female interpreter at medical appointments: simply say so when you book.

Scripts, names and official documents

Arabic script for Farsi, Dari and Pashto, Cyrillic or Latin for the languages of Central Asia, and the Georgian, Armenian and Hebrew alphabets: our translators work confidently in each and transliterate names the same way every time. Tazkiras, passports, civil status records, diplomas and judgments receive certified translation with a signed statement of accuracy that UK courts, the Home Office, universities and employers accept.

Time-stamped interview transcription, subtitling, LADO language analysis and nationality assessment complete our support for immigration casework.

Sectors that depend on these languages

Our vetted, trained and qualified linguists in these languages can support asylum and immigration solicitors, courts, police, hospitals, mental health teams, schools and charities, as well as energy, engineering and finance groups operating in the Gulf, Türkiye or Central Asia. SILA Linguists® gives you a single project team, vetted linguists and confidentiality protected by NDAs and UK GDPR compliance.

Middle Eastern and Central Asian: 37 language pages

  • Аԥсуа бызшәа

    Abkhaz

    Abkhazia (South Caucasus) · Turkey (diaspora) · Russia

  • العربية

    Arabic

    Middle East · North Africa · Sahel

  • Հայերեն

    Armenian

    Armenia · Georgia · Iran

  • Магӏарул мацӏ

    Avar

    Russia (Dagestan, and parts of Chechnya) · Azerbaijan (Zaqatala and Balakan districts) · Georgia

  • Azərbaycan dili

    Azeri

    Azerbaijan · Iran (north-west) · Georgia

  • بختیاری

    Bakhtiari

    Iran (Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province) · Iran (northern and eastern Khuzestan) · Iran (neighbouring parts of Isfahan and Lorestan)

  • بلۏچی

    Balochi

    Pakistan (Balochistan, Sindh) · Iran (Sistan and Baluchestan) · Afghanistan (south)

  • Нохчийн мотт

    Chechen

    Chechen Republic (Russia) · Ingushetia and Dagestan (Russia) · Georgia (Pankisi Gorge)

  • Адыгабзэ

    Circassian

    Russia (Adygea, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia, Krasnodar Krai) · Turkey · Jordan

  • دری

    Dari

    Afghanistan · Pakistan · Iran (refugee communities)

  • Domari

    Domari

    Jerusalem · Gaza · Syria

  • فارسی

    Farsi

    Iran · Worldwide diaspora

  • ქართული

    Georgian

    Georgia · Russia · Turkey

  • گیلکی

    Gilaki

    Iran (Gilan province)

  • هزارگی

    Hazaragi

    Afghanistan (Hazarajat: Bamyan, Daykundi and parts of Ghazni, Uruzgan, Wardak and neighbouring provinces) · Pakistan (Quetta) · Iran (Mashhad, Tehran and other cities)

  • עברית

    Hebrew

    Israel · Worldwide Jewish communities

  • ГӀалгӀай мотт

    Ingush

    Russia (Ingushetia, and parts of North Ossetia-Alania) · Kazakhstan · Europe (diaspora)

  • Қазақ тілі

    Kazakh

    Kazakhstan · China (Xinjiang) · Mongolia (Bayan-Ölgii)

  • Кыргыз тили

    Kyrgyz

    Kyrgyzstan · China (Xinjiang) · Tajikistan

  • Lazuri

    Laz

    Turkey (eastern Black Sea coast, Rize and Artvin provinces) · Georgia (Adjara) · Turkish cities and diaspora

  • лезги чӀал

    Lezgian

    Russia (southern Dagestan, Derbent, Makhachkala) · Azerbaijan (Qusar, Quba, Khachmaz, Gabala, Ismayilli, Baku) · Diaspora in Russia, Turkey and Europe

  • لری

    Luri

    Iran (Lorestan, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Ilam, Khuzestan, Fars, Hamadan) · Iraq (eastern border areas)

  • Mandaic

    Mandaic

    Iran (Ahvaz and Khuzestan) · Iraq · Sweden

  • مازرونی

    Mazandarani

    Iran (Mazandaran province, and parts of Golestan, Semnan and Tehran provinces)

  • მარგალური ნინა

    Mingrelian

    Georgia (Samegrelo) · Abkhazia (Gali district) · Tbilisi and the Georgian diaspora

  • Ирон ӕвзаг

    Ossetian

    Russia (North Ossetia-Alania) · South Caucasus (South Ossetia) · Georgia

  • Pamiri

    Pamiri

    Tajikistan (Gorno-Badakhshan) · Afghanistan (Badakhshan, Wakhan) · Pakistan (Gilgit-Baltistan, Wakhi)

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  • پښتو

    Pashto

    Afghanistan · Pakistan (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan, Karachi) · Gulf states

  • قشقایی دیلی

    Qashqai

    Iran (Fars province) · Iran (adjoining parts of Isfahan, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad and Bushehr) · Iranian diaspora

  • ܠܫܢܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ

    Syriac

    Iraq (north) · Syria (north-east) · Turkey (Tur Abdin)

  • Тоҷикӣ

    Tajik

    Tajikistan · Uzbekistan (Samarkand, Bukhara) · Russia

  • Talysh

    Talysh

    Azerbaijan (south-east: Lankaran, Astara, Lerik, Masally) · Iran (Gilan and Ardabil provinces)

  • Татар теле

    Tatar

    Russia (Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Volga-Ural region, Siberia, Moscow) · Kazakhstan · Uzbekistan

  • Türkçe

    Turkish

    Turkey · Cyprus · Bulgaria

  • Türkmen dili

    Turkmen

    Turkmenistan · Iran (Golestan and North Khorasan) · Afghanistan (north)

  • ئۇيغۇرچە

    Uyghur

    China (Xinjiang) · Kazakhstan · Kyrgyzstan

  • Oʻzbek tili

    Uzbek

    Uzbekistan · Afghanistan (north) · Tajikistan

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