Prism Linguistics provides certified Polish translation from £35 per page and Polish interpreting across the UK, with short documents usually ready within one to two working days. Certified translations are accepted by UKVI, HM Courts and Tribunals Service and HM Passport Office. Polish has been one of the busiest languages on our books since 2013, which is no surprise: the 2021 Census recorded it as the largest main language in England and Wales after English and Welsh.
Polish is one of the 300+ languages we cover; how we work across all of them is on our translation services page.
When a UK body asks for a certified Polish translation, it wants the translation plus a signed declaration of accuracy on our letterhead, dated and stamped. We provide that as standard, as a PDF with a tracked hard copy where paper is needed. What certification involves is on our certified translation page, and the full written service, with pricing and turnarounds, is on our Polish translation services page.
Most certified work is personal paperwork: birth certificate translation, marriage certificates, degree certificates, driving licences and the documents behind a UKVI application. The per-language detail is on our Polish document translation page.
Spoken work is its own service, with its own page. We provide face-to-face, telephone and video interpreting for courts, the NHS, councils and businesses. For availability, dialect matching, pricing and booking, see our Polish interpreter UK page.
We work in both directions, with different translators for each. English to Polish jobs go to native Polish speakers; Polish documents coming into English go to native English speakers who read Polish fluently. A second linguist reviews every job against the source before delivery.
Polish is a West Slavic language spoken by around 40 million people worldwide. It is the official language of Poland, where some 38 million people speak it daily, with sizeable communities in Germany, the United States, Canada and, of course, the UK. Smaller historic Polish-speaking minorities remain in Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine.
In the UK it is not a minority interest. The 2021 Census recorded around 612,000 people in England and Wales with Polish as their main language, more than any language other than English and Welsh. The largest communities are in and around London (Ealing and Haringey in particular), Slough, Southampton, Manchester, Leeds and Birmingham, and Scotland has substantial Polish populations in Edinburgh and Aberdeen.
Polish is written in the Latin alphabet with 32 letters, nine of which carry diacritics: ą, ć, ę, ł, ń, ó, ś, ź and ż. That detail matters more than it looks. A name on a birth certificate has to be reproduced exactly, diacritics included, or the receiving body may treat Łukasz and Lukasz as two different people. It is one of the first things our proofreaders check on certified work.
Standard Polish is understood everywhere in Poland, and nearly all written documents use it. The main regional varieties are Greater Polish, Lesser Polish, Masovian and Silesian. Kashubian, spoken near Gdańsk, is legally a separate regional language rather than a Polish dialect, and we treat it as its own assignment.
Clients who need Polish often need its neighbours too. We provide the same service for Ukrainian translation services, Lithuanian translation services and Russian translation services.
We work UK-wide from our head office in Warrington. These are the cities that book us most, each with its own local page.
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