Slovenian Translation Services

Where Slovenian is spoken and where your translation is accepted

Slovenian is the official language of Slovenia and, since 2004, an official language of the European Union. It is also a recognized minority language in Italy, in the region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, in Austria, in Carinthia and Styria, and in Hungary, along the Rába river, and it has more than 2 million speakers. Emigration took Slovenian to the United States, above all to Cleveland, Ohio, and to Argentina, Canada, Australia and Germany, where many families still need Slovenian records. The destination decides the type of translation.

Slovenian translation services for Slovenia, Italy and Austria

Slovenian has many dialects, grouped in seven regional groups, but documents are written in the standard language, and records from Slovenia follow their own formats. A good translation follows the language of the original, keeps every letter of the names and reads naturally to whoever receives it.

• Letters: Slovenian uses a Latin alphabet of 25 letters, with č, š and ž and without q, w, x and y, and unlike Croatian it has no ć or đ. American documents often drop the marks, so Zupančič becomes Zupancic. The translation keeps every name exactly as in the original, so tell us the form used in your US documents when you order.
• Slovenian, Italian and Hungarian: in the bilingual towns of the coast, such as Koper and Piran, Italian is also official, and around Lendava, Hungarian, so some documents come in two languages and the translation covers both. Slovenian (slovenščina) is not the same as the language of Slovakia, although the names look alike, so tell us the country that issued the document.
• Names: a surname does not change with gender, so Janez Novak and Marija Novak share the same form. In running text names change their ending with grammatical case, so Janez Novak can appear as Janeza Novaka, and Slovenian even keeps a special form for exactly two people or things, the dual. The translation keeps the name as it is written in the identity fields of the original.
• Dates and numbers: dates use periods, often with spaces, so 3. 10. 2026 or 3. oktober 2026 is October 3, 2026, and some months have their own spelling, such as marec for March and avgust for August. Decimals use a comma and thousands a period, so 1.500,00 is one thousand five hundred.
• Documents from Slovenia: the birth certificate (rojstni list), the marriage certificate (poročni list), the certificate of citizenship (potrdilo o državljanstvu) and the ID card (osebna izkaznica), which carries the 13-digit personal registration number (EMŠO). The translation reproduces every stamp, seal and note.