Quiche Translation Services

Yes. Translation in K'iche' (Quiché) - a language of the western highlands of Guatemala around Quetzaltenango, Totonicapán and Santa Cruz del Quiché - is routine here, not something arranged specially when it comes up. The text is delivered in Latin script with the glottal apostrophe, in the modern standardised Mayan spelling, produced by a native speaker and checked by a second one before it reaches you.

The regular K'iche' (Quiché) material is asylum interviews, health and legal material, community radio, school texts. Speaker labels, timestamps and layout are set to suit whichever of those you are sending, which is the difference between a file you can use and a draft you have to rework. Most of the work here ends up in front of someone with the authority to reject it.

It is handled by restricting access, not by promising discretion. Personal records, contracts and pre-filing material arrive daily, so access is closed by default and opened only to the pair on the job. K'iche' (Quiché) files often carry names, addresses and case references, so access stays with the assigned translator and the reviewer. Everyone on the job is under NDA, transfer is encrypted, and your own confidentiality agreement is signed before work starts if you have one.

In the format your workflow already uses, with real styles and structure instead of flat text, so the file drops into your records without reformatting. The K'iche' (Quiché) text itself is written in Latin script with the glottal apostrophe, in the modern standardised Mayan spelling. Editable files come back editable - a Word document returns as Word, not as a PDF you cannot amend.

In Latin script with the glottal apostrophe, in the modern standardised Mayan spelling, as a reader of K'iche' (Quiché) would expect to see it. The finished file is real text, not an image or a phonetic approximation, so your team can search it, paste from it and quote it. Rarer languages are confirmed as available before the quote goes out, not after you have paid.

Both directions. K'iche' (Quiché) into English and English into K'iche' (Quiché) 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.

K'iche' (Quiché) has a smaller pool of qualified translators than the major languages, so availability is confirmed before you pay and not promised then rescheduled. Most requests are placed within hours; where the wait would be longer, you are told at quoting stage. 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. K'iche' (Quiché) sits outside the commonly requested languages, so availability is confirmed before the quote is issued and not after you have paid. Translation is priced per word and certification per page, so you can see which part of the figure is which. Quotes are calculated from the word count, the subject matter and whether the document has to be certified, so two clients sending comparable material pay the same, and nothing begins until you approve the written total.

Rush delivery within 2 to 24 hours is available, and the delivery time is confirmed in writing before you pay. 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. K'iche' (Quiché) material with heavy code-switching takes longer to work through than clean single-speaker source, and the date you are given reflects that. If a deadline cannot be met you are told at quoting stage, not on the day.

The standard is 99+%, reached by doing the job twice: one person produces the file, and a second checks it before release. The reviewer on each K'iche' (Quiché) 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.