Acholi Translation Services

Yes. Translation in Acholi (Luo) - a language of northern Uganda around Gulu, and parts of South Sudan - is routine here, not something arranged specially when it comes up. The text is delivered in Latin script with ŋ and doubled vowels for length, produced by a native speaker and checked by a second one before it reaches you.

Most often NGO and health field interviews, radio recordings, court statements and consent forms. Each type carries its own conventions - speaker labels for interviews, timestamps for legal material, clean formatting for anything published - and those are agreed before work starts. Most of the work here ends up in front of someone with the authority to reject it.

Word, PDF, Excel, Google Docs or plain text, or your own template applied so the file comes back ready to use. Headings, tables and numbering are built properly instead of pasted in. Editable files come back editable - a Word document returns as Word, not as a PDF you cannot amend. The Acholi (Luo) text itself is written in Latin script with ŋ and doubled vowels for length.

In Latin script with ŋ and doubled vowels for length. Written properly, the Acholi (Luo) output can be searched, quoted and reused by anyone who reads the language; typed phonetically by a non-speaker, it cannot. Rarer languages are confirmed as available before the quote goes out, not after you have paid.

Both directions. Acholi (Luo) into English and English into Acholi (Luo) go to different people, because a translator works into their first language and not out of it. Certified translation is available at $25 per page. Certified pages are prepared in the format the receiving office asks for, with the signed statement attached.

Usually, but it is confirmed and not assumed. Acholi (Luo) has fewer qualified translators than the major languages, so the quote goes out only once someone is actually free to take it. If the realistic start is two days out, you hear that up front. A single page is a normal order here, and most certified filings start with exactly that.

Translation starts at $0.10 per word, and certified documents at $25 per page. Acholi (Luo) sits outside the commonly requested languages, so availability is confirmed before the quote is issued and not after you have paid. Nothing starts before you approve that figure in writing, and the invoice matches it exactly.

The delivery date is agreed before work starts, and rush delivery within 2 to 24 hours covers anything urgent. Material sent at the end of your working day is in progress overnight. Scope is agreed before the clock starts, so a document job, a website and a media file on the same order each get their own realistic date. Acholi (Luo) material with heavy code-switching takes longer to work through than clean single-speaker source, and the date you are given reflects that.

The 99+% accuracy standard applies to every file, and it holds because each translation is produced by a person and then checked against the source by a second reviewer. The reviewer on each Acholi (Luo) file checks names and terms against the source instead of reading the text through, because this material is full of names nobody can guess at. Dates, figures and proper nouns are checked separately from the prose, because those are the details a reviewing office compares first. Anything genuinely unclear is flagged for you, never guessed at.

Access is the control that matters, so it is kept to the assigned pair and nobody else. Personal records, contracts and pre-filing material arrive daily, so access is closed by default and opened only to the pair on the job. Acholi (Luo) files often carry names, addresses and case references, so access stays with the assigned translator and the reviewer. Transfer is encrypted, every person involved is under NDA, and files are deleted on request once you no longer need them held.