# Czech Translation Services

> Czech translation services for documents from the Czech Republic and the Czech diaspora, by native human translators. Certified for USCIS, notarized.

https://roxotranslations.com/czech-translation/

Roxo Translations offers Czech translation services for documents from the Czech Republic, from the former Czechoslovakia and from the Czech communities of the United States, Canada and Europe, to and from English and other languages. Every translation is done by a human translator, native in the target language, and reviewed by a second one, never by machine translation.

Send a photo or scan of the document, see the price and the deadline instantly, and receive the translation as a PDF. For the United States it comes certified and accepted by USCIS, with the signed statement and notarization included.

- Czech from the Czech Republic and the diaspora, in both directions
- Certified for USCIS, with notarization included
- Instant online quote and fast delivery

## Where Czech is spoken and where your translation is accepted

Czech is the official language of the Czech Republic, also called Czechia, and one of the official languages of the European Union, with more than 10 million speakers in Bohemia, Moravia and Czech Silesia. From the 1850s, emigration took Czech to the United States, where Czech communities grew in Texas, Nebraska, Wisconsin and Chicago, and later to Canada, Austria and Germany, and, after the Czech Republic joined the European Union in 2004, to the United Kingdom. The destination decides the type of translation.

| Where | What you need |
|---|---|
| United States: USCIS, courts, universities and employers | [Certified translation](https://roxotranslations.com/certified-translation/) into English, with the signed statement of accuracy and notarization included |
| Brazil: notary offices, universities and public agencies | [Sworn translation](https://roxotranslations.com/pt/traducao-juramentada/) into Portuguese, signed by a public sworn translator and valid nationwide. For Czech, we confirm before quoting whether it goes through English |
| Czech Republic and other countries of the European Union | Ask the receiving authority which format it accepts: we tell you the options before quoting, including the [Hague apostille](https://roxotranslations.com/apostille/) when it applies |
| Czech consulates, citizenship and civil records | The translation into the language the authority asks for, with the apostille on the original when it is required |

## Czech language pairs we translate

These are the language pairs with Czech that we translate today, in both directions.

- [Czech to Arabic](https://roxotranslations.com/arabic-translation/)
- [Czech to English](https://roxotranslations.com/english-translation/)
- [Czech to Italian](https://roxotranslations.com/italian-translation/)
- [Czech to Russian](https://roxotranslations.com/russian-translation/)
- [Arabic to Czech](https://roxotranslations.com/arabic-translation/)
- [English to Czech](https://roxotranslations.com/english-translation/)
- [Italian to Czech](https://roxotranslations.com/italian-translation/)
- [Russian to Czech](https://roxotranslations.com/russian-translation/)

Need a pair that is not on the list? Talk to us: we answer within one hour, 7 days a week.

## Czech translation services for Bohemia, Moravia and the Czech diaspora

Czech is one language across the Czech Republic, but Bohemia and Moravia have their own everyday forms, and Czech documents follow their own formats. A good translation keeps every letter of the original and reads naturally to whoever receives it.

- Letters: Czech is written in the Latin alphabet with the háček in č, ř, š, ž and ě, the acute accent in á, é, í, ó, ú and ý and the ring in ů, and ch counts as a single letter. Systems abroad often drop the marks, so Dvořák becomes Dvorak and Plzeň becomes Plzen, and the translation keeps every letter exactly as in the original.
- Names: most surnames have a female form, so the wife or daughter of Novák is Nováková and the female form of Novotný is Novotná, and some women abroad use the surname without -ová. Czech also changes names inside a sentence, so Petr Novák can appear as Petra Nováka, and Petra is also a woman's name. Tell us the spelling used in your US documents when you order.
- Regions: in spoken Czech from Bohemia, dobrý (good) often becomes dobrej and mléko (milk) becomes mlíko, and in Brno the tram is called šalina. Official documents always use standard written Czech (spisovná čeština).
- Dates and numbers: dates are written day, month and year with periods and often spaces, so 3. 10. 2026 is October 3, 2026, and months in words have their own Slavic names, as in 3. října 2026. Decimals use a comma and thousands a space, so 1 500,00 is one thousand five hundred.
- Documents: the birth certificate (rodný list), the marriage certificate (oddací list) and the ID card (občanský průkaz) carry the birth number (rodné číslo), in which women have 50 added to the month. Documents issued before 1993 often name Czechoslovakia (ČSR, ČSSR or ČSFR). The translation reproduces every stamp, seal and note.

## The history of the Czech language

Czech belongs to the West Slavic branch of the Slavic languages, together with Slovak and Polish. In the 9th century, the missionaries Cyril and Methodius brought Old Church Slavonic to Great Moravia, but Latin soon became the written language of the Church and the state, and the first Czech words appear in Latin documents of the 11th century, such as the founding charter of the Litoměřice chapter. In 1348, Charles IV founded the university of Prague, the oldest in Central Europe.

In the early 15th century, the reformer Jan Hus is credited with the spelling with diacritics still used today, which writes sounds such as č, š and ž with a single letter. The Bible of Kralice, printed between 1579 and 1593, became the model of the written language. After 1620, German dominated the state and the schools, and in the 19th century the Czech National Revival, with Josef Dobrovský and Josef Jungmann, brought Czech back to books, theater and science.

From the 1850s, Czech families emigrated to Texas, Nebraska, Wisconsin and Chicago, and new waves left after 1948 and 1968. Czechoslovakia existed from 1918 to 1992, and on January 1, 1993, the Czech Republic became independent. Today Czech has more than 10 million speakers, and the records of those families are still translated for immigration, citizenship and genealogy.

## We also translate other languages

- [Romanian translation](https://roxotranslations.com/romanian-translation/)
- [Greek translation](https://roxotranslations.com/greek-translation/)
- [Latin translation](https://roxotranslations.com/latin-translation/)
- [Turkish translation](https://roxotranslations.com/turkish-translation/)
- [Swedish translation](https://roxotranslations.com/swedish-translation/)