Sotho Translation Services

Yes. Sotho (Sesotho of Lesotho) is spoken in Lesotho, where it is the national language, and migrant communities in South Africa, and Sotho (Sesotho of Lesotho) translation is done by native speakers of the language, never by English-speaking staff working phonetically. The finished text is written in Latin script in the Lesotho orthography, which keeps the older li-, oa and kh spellings, so it stays searchable and quotable afterwards. A certified version and a plain working copy can be issued from the same job.

In Latin script in the Lesotho orthography, which keeps the older li-, oa and kh spellings. Written properly, the Sotho (Sesotho of Lesotho) 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.

Translation starts at $0.10 per word, and certified documents at $25 per page. What moves the figure is the word count, the subject matter and whether the document has to be certified, so the quote is built from your actual files and not from a rate card. Translation is priced per word and certification per page, so you can see which part of the figure is which. Sotho (Sesotho of Lesotho) is requested often enough that work starts straight away instead of waiting for a specialist to come free. You get an exact total in writing before anything starts.

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

Work is done by human translators and compared with the original before it is sent, which is how the 99+% accuracy standard is met. Dates, figures and proper nouns are checked separately from the prose, because those are the details a reviewing office compares first. The reviewer on each Sotho (Sesotho of Lesotho) 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. One person working alone would not catch a term rendered two different ways in the same document.

It is handled by restricting access, not by promising discretion. Sotho (Sesotho of Lesotho) 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.

You choose: editable Word or Google Docs, a searchable PDF for filing, or Excel where the content belongs in a table. Editable files come back editable - a Word document returns as Word, not as a PDF you cannot amend. The Sotho (Sesotho of Lesotho) text itself is written in Latin script in the Lesotho orthography, which keeps the older li-, oa and kh spellings. Send a template once and every later order follows it.

Upload the material, approve the written quote and deadline, and work begins - no deposit, no account to set up. Say which Sotho (Sesotho of Lesotho) variety the speakers use when you send the files, because that is what decides who the job goes to. Say what the finished text is for - a filing, a launch, a reader - because the brief changes the wording more than the language does. Anything ambiguous is queried with you before work starts.

Payment is by Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, PayPal, Square, wire transfer and checks, and businesses and institutions can be set up on monthly invoicing instead of paying per job. Firms and institutions sending work every month are invoiced monthly against a purchase order. Nothing is taken up front on Sotho (Sesotho of Lesotho) work: payment falls due once you have approved the written quote. The price you approve in the written quote is the price you are charged.

Both directions. Sotho (Sesotho of Lesotho) into English and English into Sotho (Sesotho of Lesotho) 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.