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The Translation Company provides Somali translation services to government agencies, school districts, and healthcare organizations serving Somali communities. We have translated between English and Somali since 2005, in both directions, at corporate grade, for clients that treat translation as a strategic function rather than a commodity purchase.
Why organizations choose us for Somali: a WBENC-certified women-owned company, operating to ISO 9001 and 17100 standards, corporate member of the American Translators Association, serving clients since 2005. We are selective about the work we take, transparent about how it runs, and accountable at the ownership level for every engagement.
Qualified buyers can to scope a Somali translation program before any commitment.
Somali for US Institutions and Communities
Somali demand in the United States is institutional: school communications for districts with large Somali enrollments, health-system materials, vital documents, and public notices. Somali readers span a wide range of literacy backgrounds, so plain, community-tested language matters more than formal polish. Our native Somali linguists write for those readers in both directions, with certification when institutions require it.
Somali Language Access for Agencies, Schools, and Healthcare
Much of the real demand for Somali translation in the United States is language access: recipients of federal funding must communicate with limited-English-proficient communities in their languages, and Somali appears on those obligations wherever its speakers live. Somali is a core language-access requirement in Minnesota, Ohio, and Washington, home to the largest Somali communities in the country, across districts, agencies, and health systems.
We translate vital documents (notices, applications, consent forms, report cards, discharge instructions) into plain, community-appropriate Somali, and we pair them with in-house Somali interpreting so agencies, districts, and providers meet Title VI, ESSA, and Section 1557 expectations with one accountable provider instead of a patchwork of vendors.
How We Deliver Somali Translation
Every engagement starts by confirming the audience and the stakes, because those two facts decide everything else: which linguists, which register, which review depth, and which deadline plan. A dedicated project manager owns your Somali work end to end, maintains your terminology base, fields linguist questions in one organized thread, and keeps delivery dates honest. Files come back in the formats they arrived in, from Word and Excel to InDesign and structured content, and recurring clients get the same core team so institutional knowledge compounds instead of resetting with every order.
Somali Translation by Industry
Government and language access. Somali appears in language-access plans and public communication across the country; we translate vital documents and provide Somali interpreting for agencies under our government translation services, with public-sector clients that have included the County of Santa Clara and the City of San Jose.
Education. School districts and universities translate parent communications, enrollment materials, and academic records with our education translation services, written for families rather than lawyers, and delivered on school calendars.
Medical and life sciences. Clinical documentation, regulatory submissions, and patient materials are handled by our medical translation practice with linguists who work in life-science terminology daily and reviewers who understand what regulators and patients each need from the same content.
Legal. Contracts, corporate records, litigation and discovery documents, judgments, and certificates move between English and Somali through our legal translation services, with certification when a court or agency requires it. Legal Somali is handled by linguists vetted for legal subject matter, and quality standards are overseen by our owner, a licensed attorney in Texas and California, so documents leave here ready for the venue that will read them.
What We Translate Between English and Somali
Across these settings, the document types we handle most often include the following:
- Contracts, agreements, and corporate or official records
- Litigation documents, judgments, and certificates
- Vital documents, notices, and application forms
- Manuals, specifications, and safety documentation
- Clinical and regulatory documentation
- Employee handbooks, policies, and HR communications
- Marketing, training, and community-facing content
Certified Somali translations. When a US court, agency, university, or employer requires certification, we provide certified Somali-to-English and English-to-Somali translations with a signed statement of accuracy; see our certified translation services for formats and turnaround.
Somali Interpreting
Interpreting is delivered in-house, not brokered. We provide Somali interpreters over the phone, by video, and on-site, including school, medical, and community-meeting settings, with our own simultaneous-interpreting equipment for conferences and public meetings. Document translation and interpreting run under one project manager when your program needs both, which is exactly where multi-vendor setups usually fray. See our interpretation services.
Process, Quality, and the Human/MTPE Choice
Every Somali project runs through translation, editing, and proofreading (TEP) by separate linguists, with a project manager accountable for terminology, schedule, and query management, operating to ISO 9001 and 17100 standards. Where the content profile fits, we offer machine translation with professional post-editing (MTPE) as a deliberate choice for high-volume, lower-risk content, while certified, legal, clinical, and community-vital content stays fully human. We advise which workflow fits which content and put that recommendation in writing before work begins, so you are choosing with the trade-offs in front of you.
Confidentiality and Data Handling
Translation work exposes exactly the documents organizations least want circulating: contracts under negotiation, filings before submission, patient records, personnel matters. Every Somali engagement runs under NDA on request, files move through controlled channels rather than personal inboxes, and access is limited to the assigned team. For regulated content we align handling with the obligations you already carry, from healthcare privacy to matters under protective order, and we state in writing how your files are stored, for how long, and who touches them. If your procurement or IT team requires work inside client-side platforms, we accommodate that too.
Somali Translation Questions We Hear Most
Do you translate school district communications into Somali? Yes. District communications, health materials, and vital documents in Somali, paired with in-house Somali interpreting, are the core of our practice.
Are your certified Somali translations accepted by US courts and agencies? Yes. Certified translations include a signed statement of accuracy prepared to the receiving institution’s requirements, and we match specific formats (declarations, notarization coordination) when a venue asks for them.
Do you handle both Somali-to-English and English-to-Somali? Yes. Both directions run through the same team on a shared terminology base, which matters for litigation and for any program where documents flow both ways.
How fast can you deliver? Small documents typically move in one to two business days; larger projects get a delivery plan up front, and rush needs are staffed honestly rather than promised loosely.
Do you provide Somali interpreters? Yes: over the phone, by video, and on-site, including conference settings with our own simultaneous-interpreting equipment.
How do we start? The fastest route is a ; you can also start a project directly or call 800-725-6498.
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