Uyghur interpreting and translation

Uyghur interpreters for high-stakes settings

We provide Uyghur interpreters for asylum and immigration interviews, appeals, court proceedings, police interviews, mental health assessments and medical appointments. Face-to-face interpreters attend in person, telephone interpreting is reachable every hour of the day, all year, and video interpreting runs over the SILA Linguists® app, or over Teams or Zoom if you prefer. For academic events, media briefings and conferences, simultaneous interpreting, including RSI, can be arranged.

An Uzbek or Turkish interpreter is not a substitute: Uzbek is close, but legal and clinical work demands a first-language Uyghur speaker. Many clients worry about relatives at home, so discretion matters, and every interpreter works under confidentiality agreements. A female or male interpreter can be requested.

Translation across three scripts

In China the Uyghur standard is a modified Arabic alphabet, read right to left and writing every vowel. A Latin alphabet is widely used online and in academic work, and Uyghurs in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan have traditionally used Cyrillic. We check the reader's script before starting and typeset with fonts that support all Uyghur letters, including the vowels ö, ü and é, so nothing is lost when a leaflet or statement reaches its reader.

Source documents may be in Uyghur, Chinese or Russian, and personal names often appear in several spellings. Our translators keep spellings consistent and note variants where they matter for identity. Certified translations carry a signed declaration of accuracy, accepted by UK authorities such as judges, immigration caseworkers and universities, and by prospective employers. Chinese, Uyghur or Turkish papers for US or Canadian authorities are certified in the form they expect.

Transcription, subtitling and language analysis

We transcribe and translate Uyghur audio and video for legal evidence, research and journalism, with time stamps and subtitles where needed.

SILA Linguists® also provides LADO reports for Uyghur, the linguistic analysis used to establish where someone grew up, assessing the regional and dialectal features of a person's speech, from the central varieties of Ürümqi, Ghulja and Kashgar to the southern Hotan and eastern Lop varieties.

Settings for our linguists in Uyghur

Our vetted, trained and qualified Uyghur linguists can support immigration and asylum lawyers, tribunals, police, NHS and mental health services, universities, researchers, human rights organisations and media producers. One dedicated coordinator manages each assignment, and vetted linguists handle personal data under UK GDPR. Uyghur interpreters can support asylum hearings, refugee claims, researchers and media in the United States and Canada, as well as UK services.