# Lithuanian Translation Services

> Lithuanian translation services to and from English, for documents from Lithuania, by native human translators. Certified for USCIS, with notarization.

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

Roxo Translations offers Lithuanian translation services for documents from Lithuania and from the Lithuanian communities abroad, from Lithuanian into English and from English into Lithuanian. 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.

- Lithuanian to English and English to Lithuanian
- Certified for USCIS, with notarization included
- Instant online quote and fast delivery

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

Lithuanian is the official language of Lithuania and, since Lithuania joined the European Union on May 1, 2004, an official language of the Union. It is also spoken by Lithuanian communities in Poland, Latvia and Belarus, and it has nearly 3 million speakers. From the end of the 19th century many families emigrated to the United States, above all to Chicago and Pennsylvania, and after 2004 many more moved to the United Kingdom, Ireland and Norway. Their children and grandchildren still need Lithuanian records translated, for immigration and for Lithuanian citizenship. 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 Lithuanian, the sworn translation is confirmed in the quote |
| Lithuania and other European Union 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 |
| Lithuanian consulates, citizenship and immigration processes | The translation into the language the authority asks for, with the apostille on the original when it is required |

## Lithuanian language pairs we translate

Today we translate Lithuanian with English, in both directions: Lithuanian into English and English into Lithuanian.

- Lithuanian to [English](https://roxotranslations.com/english-translation/)
- [English](https://roxotranslations.com/english-translation/) to Lithuanian

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

## Lithuanian translation services: diacritics, surnames and the personal code

Lithuanian is written in the Latin alphabet, but with letters, grammar and names that work in a way of their own. A good translation reads every mark of the original, writes every name the way the passport does and keeps every number of the original.

- Standard and dialects: standard Lithuanian is based on the western Aukštaitian dialects, and the Samogitian dialects of the northwest of the country sound very different. Official documents use the standard language, but old letters and family records can carry dialect words and spellings, and the translation reads them in context.
- Alphabet: Lithuanian has 32 letters, nine of them with diacritics, ą, č, ę, ė, į, š, ų, ū and ž. In the United States the marks are often dropped, so Šimkus can appear as Simkus or Shimkus. The translation follows the spelling of your passport, so tell us the form used in your US documents when you order.
- Surnames: women’s surnames change with marital status. In the Petrauskas family, the wife is Petrauskienė and the unmarried daughter is Petrauskaitė, and a translation that treats them as three different names breaks the family link. The translation keeps each form exactly as in the original, so forms in the United States can connect parents and children.
- Dates and numbers: dates are written year, month and day, so 2026-10-03 is October 3, 2026, or in words as 2026 m. spalio 3 d., where m. stands for year and d. for day, and the months have their own names, so spalis is October. Names change with the seven grammatical cases, so Jonas becomes Jono, and the translation uses the form of the passport. Decimals use a comma and thousands a space, so 1 500,00 is one thousand five hundred.
- Documents from Lithuania: the birth record extract (gimimo įrašo išrašas), the marriage record extract (santuokos įrašo išrašas), the ID card (asmens tapatybės kortelė), the diploma with its supplement (diplomo priedėlis) and the archive certificates (archyvinė pažyma) used in citizenship cases. Most of them carry the personal code (asmens kodas), with 11 digits, the first one for sex and century of birth and the next six for the date of birth. The translation reproduces every stamp, seal and note.

## The history of the Lithuanian language

Lithuanian is a Baltic language of the Indo-European family, and together with Latvian it is one of the two Baltic languages still spoken today. It keeps many old Indo-European features, which is why linguists study it next to Latin, Greek and Sanskrit. The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was one of the largest states in Europe, but its offices wrote mostly in Ruthenian and Latin, and the first printed book in Lithuanian, the Catechism of Martynas Mažvydas, came out in Königsberg in 1547.

In 1864 the Russian Empire banned Lithuanian books in the Latin alphabet. For forty years the book smugglers (knygnešiai) carried books printed in East Prussia across the border, until the ban ended in 1904. At the start of the 20th century Jonas Jablonskis set the norms of the standard language, and on February 16, 1918, Lithuania declared its independence, with Lithuanian as the language of the state.

Lithuania restored its independence on March 11, 1990, and joined the European Union on May 1, 2004. Today Lithuanian has nearly 3 million speakers, in Lithuania and in the communities abroad, from the old Lithuanian neighborhoods of Chicago to the new ones in London and Dublin, and those families still need their records translated for immigration, citizenship, study and work.

## We also translate other languages

- [Danish translation](https://roxotranslations.com/danish-translation/)
- [Slovak translation](https://roxotranslations.com/slovak-translation/)
- [Latvian translation](https://roxotranslations.com/latvian-translation/)
- [Irish translation](https://roxotranslations.com/irish-translation/)
- [Hungarian translation](https://roxotranslations.com/hungarian-translation/)