Mazandarani interpreting and translation

Choosing between Mazandarani and Farsi interpreting

Nearly all Mazandarani speakers are bilingual in Farsi, and many can work comfortably through a Farsi interpreter. Older people, rural clients and anyone giving a detailed personal account, such as in an asylum interview or a mental health assessment, may be more at ease in Mazandarani. We ask the client's preference and book accordingly.

Telephone and video interpreting widen the choice of linguists for this language: telephone access runs round the clock, holidays included, and video sessions work in our dedicated SILA Linguists® app or on your usual video platform. Face-to-face interpreters can attend hearings and long appointments. Consecutive interpreting suits most work, and you can ask for a woman or a man to interpret.

Translation: Farsi documents and Mazandarani texts

Official Iranian documents, including birth certificates (shenasnameh), marriage certificates, court judgments and academic transcripts, are always in Farsi, so most translation work for Mazandarani speakers is from Farsi into English. Our certified translations carry the translator's signed confirmation of accuracy, accepted by UK authorities such as the Home Office, family and criminal courts and universities, and by employers.

Mazandarani has a literary tradition, including the poems of Amir Pazevari, but no single modern written standard. When it is written, the Arabic-based script is used, right to left, and we can translate letters, poems or oral history material for research and cultural projects.

Transcription, oral history and LADO

We transcribe Mazandarani recordings, from asylum interviews to oral history and linguistic fieldwork, with timestamps plus an English version, marking where speakers switch into Farsi. Where an asylum decision turns on a person's regional origin within Iran, language analysis to determine origin (LADO), prepared by experienced analysts, can be arranged.

Where we can help in Mazandarani

Our vetted, trained and qualified Mazandarani and Farsi linguists can support immigration advisers and solicitors, courts and tribunals, NHS and mental health teams, universities and oral history projects, as well as social workers and housing teams supporting Iranian families who have recently arrived. One SILA Linguists® project team coordinates each job, with vetted linguists working under a signed NDA and UK GDPR.