Tamil interpreting and translation

Tamil interpreters for tribunals, hospitals and conferences

Our Tamil interpreting services include face-to-face attendance at immigration tribunals, asylum interviews, criminal and family courts, mental health reviews and school meetings. Telephone interpreting is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and video interpreting runs on the SILA Linguists® app or your own platform. For business delegations and academic events we supply consecutive, simultaneous and remote simultaneous Tamil interpreters.

Formal written Tamil, centamil, sounds very different from everyday spoken Tamil, so our interpreters explain official terms in plain language without losing precision. Some Sri Lankan Tamil clients carry painful memories of the civil war; we handle this neutrally and respect reasonable preferences about who interprets, including a female or male interpreter.

Tamil translation into and out of English

We translate Sri Lankan and Indian birth, marriage and death certificates, police reports, court records, land deeds and academic transcripts, transcribing names exactly as they appear in the passport. Certified Tamil translation includes a signed and dated statement of accuracy, accepted by UK authorities such as the Home Office, courts and universities, and by employers. For Canada we can arrange a provincially certified Tamil translator, and for Australia NAATI-certified translation.

Administrative and legal vocabulary differs between India and Sri Lanka, so we choose terminology for the reader's country. Older files typed in legacy Tamil fonts are converted to Unicode. For companies trading with Chennai, Singapore or Kuala Lumpur, we localise websites, product information and marketing in Tamil.

Tamil transcription and language analysis

Police interviews, witness recordings and research interviews are transcribed in full with time codes, then rendered into English, with switches into English or Sinhala marked. Where an asylum claim depends on where a speaker is from, language analysis (LADO) for Tamil can be arranged through specialist analysts.

Settings for our linguists in Tamil

Our vetted, trained and qualified Tamil linguists can support asylum and immigration practitioners, barristers and solicitors, the NHS and mental health teams, schools, local authorities, community organisations and businesses in technology, manufacturing and trade. With SILA Linguists® you have one dedicated project team, carefully vetted Tamil linguists and full confidentiality under signed agreements and UK GDPR. Tamil is also widely needed for public health messages and community consultations, which we can support in print, audio and video. Tamil interpreters can join Canadian immigration and refugee hearings and Australian courts, councils and hospitals, matched to Sri Lankan or Indian Tamil.