Bengali-English Translation Services

Our Certified Bengali Translation services include:

• English to Bengali document translation services. Our translators are specialised in medical, legal, and technical areas
• Bengali to English translation services. We can help you reach Bengali-speaking communities in your local area
• Online Language Services between Bengali and the major European languages, including Spanish, German, French, Italian, and many others
• We offer language interpreting services in Bengali in the main Bangladeshi cities, as well as in Europe and North America. Our Bengali interpreting services cover all interpretation modes, including consecutive, simultaneous, liaison, relay, over the phone, and teleconferencing
• We can help with providing certified translations of important documents in Bengali, so that they are legally valid abroad. We also offer sworn translation services in a large number of countries
• LinguaVox has a team of dedicated specialists in Bengali desktop publishing, website and multimedia translation, and software localisation services.

Bengali is spoken by approximately 300 million individuals, which makes it the sixth most spoken language in the world. Bengali is spoken by 98 per cent of the population in Bangladesh, and is one of India’s 23 official languages (in fact, it is India’s second language in terms of number of speakers, after Hindi). There are also Bengali-speaking communities in other South-East Asian countries, like Malaysia and Singapore. Outside Asia, there are sizable Bengali communities in the United Kingdom (mainly in East London), the United States (New York), the Gulf, and Australia.

There are four main Bengali dialects, namely Rhada, Varendra, Kamrupa, and Bangla, which show marked differences between them in terms of grammar and vocabulary. Moreover, the dialectal variations spoken in some cities in Northern Bangladesh (like Chittagong and Sylhet) are almost unintelligible to other Bengali speakers.

There have been attempts to standardise Bengali spelling since 1936, but reforms have been met with mixed success. To this day, there seems to be no consensus as to the orthography of this Indo-European language, and the majority of official publications and newspapers have their own writing style. For this reason, it is essential that Bengali translators are fully acquainted with the dialectal variation of the target population and with the various writing conventions that may be in place.