# Greek Translation Services

> Greek translation services for documents from Greece and Cyprus, by native human translators. Certified for USCIS, with notarization included.

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

Roxo Translations offers Greek translation services for documents from Greece, from Cyprus and from the Greek communities abroad, to and from English, Italian, Russian and Arabic. 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.

- Greek from Greece and Cyprus, in both directions
- Certified for USCIS, with notarization included
- Instant online quote and fast delivery

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

Greek is the official language of Greece and, together with Turkish, of Cyprus, and it has been an official language of the European Union since 1981. It is also a recognized minority language in Albania and Italy, and it has more than 12 million speakers. Emigration took Greek to the United States, Australia, Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom, where many families still need Greek records for citizenship, inheritance and marriage. 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 Greek, we confirm before quoting whether it goes through English |
| Greece, Cyprus and other countries | 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 |
| Greek and Cypriot consulates, citizenship and immigration processes | The translation into the language the authority asks for, with the apostille on the original when it is required |

## Greek language pairs we translate

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

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

## Greek translation services for Greece, Cyprus and the diaspora

Greek has its own alphabet, its own way of building names and its own document formats, in Greece and in Cyprus. A good translation follows the language of the original, writes every name the way your other documents already do and reads naturally to whoever receives it.

- Alphabet: Greek uses an alphabet of 24 letters, so every name has to be moved into Latin letters. Greek passports follow the ELOT 743 standard, so Γεώργιος becomes Georgios, while the same person may be Yiorgos or George in American records. Tell us the spelling used in your US documents when you order.
- Surnames and gender: a woman usually carries the genitive form of the family surname, so the father is Papadopoulos and the daughter is Papadopoulou. Greek records also show the father’s name and often the mother’s name, and the translation keeps each of these fields as in the original.
- Greek from Greece and from Cyprus: documents from both countries are written in standard Modern Greek, while everyday speech in Cyprus has its own dialect. Records issued before 1976 may be in Katharevousa, the formal Greek used by the state until then, and older ones carry several accent marks (polytonic writing), which the translator reads the same way.
- Dates and numbers: dates go day, month and year, with the month in the genitive, so 3 Οκτωβρίου 2026 is October 3, 2026. Decimals use a comma and thousands a period, so 1.500,00 is one thousand five hundred, and the Greek question mark looks like a semicolon (;).
- Documents from Greece and Cyprus: the birth certificate (ληξιαρχική πράξη γέννησης), the marriage certificate (ληξιαρχική πράξη γάμου), the family status certificate (πιστοποιητικό οικογενειακής κατάστασης) and the ID card (δελτίο ταυτότητας), along with the tax number (ΑΦΜ). The translation reproduces every stamp, seal and note.

## The history of the Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European language with more than 3,000 years of written history. Its oldest records are the Linear B clay tablets of the Mycenaean palaces, from the second millennium BC. Around the 8th century BC the Greeks adapted the Phoenician alphabet and gave vowels their own letters, and in that period the Iliad and the Odyssey, attributed to Homer, took the form we read today.

After the conquests of Alexander the Great, in the 4th century BC, a common Greek called Koine spread across the eastern Mediterranean, and the New Testament was written in it. Greek was then the language of the Byzantine Empire for about a thousand years, until the fall of Constantinople in 1453. Words such as democracy, philosophy and telephone come from Greek roots, in English, Portuguese and Spanish.

In modern Greece, two forms of the language competed for a long time: Katharevousa, a learned form close to the ancient one, and Demotic, the spoken language. In 1976 Demotic became the official language, and in 1982 the writing kept a single accent mark. Greece joined the European Union in 1981 and Cyprus in 2004, and today Greek has more than 12 million speakers, in both countries and in the communities abroad.

## We also translate other languages

- [Latin translation](https://roxotranslations.com/latin-translation/)
- [Turkish translation](https://roxotranslations.com/turkish-translation/)
- [Swedish translation](https://roxotranslations.com/swedish-translation/)
- [Bulgarian translation](https://roxotranslations.com/bulgarian-translation/)
- Lithuanian translation