Spanish Translation Services, Certified Translators & Spanish Interpreters

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Certified Spanish Translation Services for Spain and Latin America

All Language Alliance, Inc. provides professional Spanish translation services for documents originating in or intended for Spain, Mexico, Central America, South America and other Spanish-speaking regions. We assign Spanish translators according to the language, subject matter, intended use and destination of the document.

Our certified Spanish translation services include translation of birth and marriage certificates, diplomas and transcripts, corporate and business documents, powers of attorney, Apostilles, immigration documents and other official records. We also provide Spanish legal translation services for litigation, business transactions and other legal matters.

Spanish Legal Translation Services

All Language Alliance, Inc. provides Spanish legal translation services for law firms, corporate legal departments, businesses and individuals requiring accurate Spanish-to-English and English-to-Spanish translations of legal documents. We assign professional Spanish legal translators according to the subject matter, jurisdiction, intended use and regional language requirements of each project.

Our Spanish legal translators handle contracts, agreements, pleadings, motions, court orders, judgments, exhibits, affidavits, declarations, powers of attorney, corporate records, correspondence and other documents used in litigation, transactions and legal proceedings. We also translate Spanish-language evidence and supporting documents for attorneys handling matters involving individuals, companies or records from Spain, Mexico, Central America, South America and other Spanish-speaking jurisdictions.

For documents intended for use outside the United States, we provide Apostille services for eligible documents and supply the certified Spanish translations required for international use.

For litigation involving Spanish-speaking parties, witnesses or evidence, our Spanish translation services can be coordinated with Spanish deposition interpreters for remote and in-person depositions, attorney-client meetings, arbitrations and other legal proceedings.

We also provide Spanish interpreters, Apostille services, Spanish historical document research, archival research and genealogy research for clients requiring related language and document services.

Spanish Interpreters for Depositions and Professional Proceedings

All Language Alliance, Inc. assigns Spanish deposition interpreters for remote and in-person depositions, attorney-client meetings, arbitrations and other professional proceedings throughout the United States. Spanish interpreting is available remotely by video or telephone and on site when required.

For deposition and legal interpreting assignments, we consider the proceeding, subject matter, location, interpreting mode and scheduling requirements when assigning a Spanish interpreter. Law firms and other clients may request Spanish interpreting as a stand-alone service or together with Spanish legal document translation.

Spanish Apostille Services & Certified Spanish Translation

All Language Alliance, Inc. provides Spanish Apostille services and certified Spanish translation for documents intended for use in Spain, Mexico, Central America, South America and other Spanish-speaking countries, as well as Spanish-language documents intended for use in the United States. We obtain Apostilles for eligible documents and provide certified Spanish translations for use in Spain, Latin America and other international jurisdictions.

Our Spanish Apostille services may involve birth certificates, marriage certificates, death certificates, diplomas, transcripts, powers of attorney, corporate documents, court records and other public or notarized documents.

Because Apostille and translation requirements vary according to the issuing authority, document type, destination country and intended use, clients should identify where the document was issued and where it will be presented. All Language Alliance, Inc. can provide Apostille services and certified Spanish translation as part of the same project.

To request Spanish Apostille services and certified translation, send us a copy of the document and provide the destination country, intended use and deadline. We will review the documents and determine the appropriate Apostille and Spanish translation services for the project.

Certified Spanish Translation and Castilian Spanish

The language known today as Spanish is derived from a dialect of spoken Latin that evolved in the north-central part of the Iberian Peninsula after the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century. For reasons more political than linguistic, the dialect of Vulgar Latin that was common in what is now the north-central portion of Spain, which includes Castile, spread throughout the region. In the 13th century, King Alfonso supported efforts such as the translation of historic documents that helped the dialect, known as Castilian, become the standard for educated use of the language. He also made that dialect the official language for government administration.

Although Castilian became the primary language of the area now known as Spain, its use didn’t eliminate the other Latin-based languages in the region. Galician (which has similarities to Portuguese) and Catalan (one of the major languages of Europe with similarities to Spanish and French) continue to be used by large numbers of people today. A non-Latin-based language, Euskara or Basque, is also spoken by a minority. In a sense, then, these other languages – Galician, Catalan and Euskara – are Spanish languages and even have official status in their regions, so the term Castilian (and more often its Spanish equivalent, castellano) has sometimes been used to differentiate that language from the other languages of Spain. Thus, in Spain, a person’s choice of terms to refer to the language – castellano or español – can often have political implications.

Today, the term “Castilian” is used in other ways too. Sometimes it is used to distinguish the north-central standard of Spanish from regional variations such as Andalusian (used in southern Spain). Sometimes it is used, somewhat inaccurately, to distinguish the Spanish of Spain from that of Latin America. And sometimes it is used simply as a synonym for Spanish, especially when referring to the “pure” Spanish promulgated by the Royal Spanish Academy (which itself preferred the term castellano in its dictionaries until the 1920s). In many parts of Latin America, the Spanish language is known routinely as castellano rather than español.

Historical Spanish Document Research, Transcription, Paleography and Translation

Our Spanish historical document researchers, translators and paleographers research, locate, decipher, transcribe and translate Spanish archival and historical records. We provide Spanish historical document research, archival research and genealogy research for legal, property, citizenship, academic and family-history projects involving records from Spain, Latin America and other Spanish-speaking regions.

Our Spanish paleographers decipher and transcribe medieval, colonial and other historical documents written in Spanish cursive scripts and translate them into English. We research and translate Spanish colonial handwritten legal documents, historical manuscripts, letters, baptismal and marriage records, wills, probate records, land records, title deeds and other Spanish archival and historical documents.

Spanish Translation Services for Latin America and for Spain

Spanish is spoken throughout a large number of countries and regions and has a wide variety of regional forms, some more distinct than others.  Although all Spanish speakers can understand each other, each region has different accents and word usage preferences. In fact, there are even Spanish words that cease to exist once you cross into a new place. For example, vos, originally a second-person plural, came to be used as a more polite second-person singular pronoun to be used among one’s familiar friends. In time, vos lost currency in Spain but survived in Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia (east), Uruguay, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, and many other countries and regions in Latin America.

A good English to Castilian Spanish translator will have a command of a near-endless list of grammatical rules. For example, Spanish is a two-gender system, where all nouns must be paired with not only their proper articles and pronoun but also the correct gender adjective. Also, Spanish is a relatively synthetic language with a moderate to high degree of inflection, which shows up mostly in Spanish verb conjugation, one of the more complex areas of the language’s grammar.

If you do business in different regions of Spain, you need an English-to-Spanish translation service that understands the linguistic and regional differences that may affect the translation.

A professional Spanish translation service should consider the country and intended audience of the translation so that appropriate regional terminology and language conventions can be used.  This will allow it to localize the translation by using the appropriate regional preferences. In other words, it is possible to customize the writing so that it meets expectations in Spain, Mexico, Central America, South America or other Spanish-speaking regions, and thus avoid inadvertently offending anyone.

Spanish is currently the official language of 21 countries. Spanish documents originate in countries with different legal, administrative and linguistic conventions. The appropriate terminology may therefore depend on both the country of origin and the country in which the translation will be used.

Spanish is widely spoken throughout the United States and is one of the six official languages of the United Nations. Its extensive use across Spain, Latin America and other parts of the world makes regional terminology and the intended audience important considerations in professional Spanish translation.

Request a Quote for Spanish Translation, Interpreting, Apostille or Historical Research Services

To request Spanish translation, interpreting, Apostille or historical research services, contact All Language Alliance, Inc. with a copy of your documents or a description of your project. Include the language direction, intended use, country or jurisdiction, deadline, and any certification, Apostille, authentication, archival research or historical document requirements. We will review your project and assign the appropriate Spanish translator, interpreter, genealogist, historical researcher or paleographer and coordinate any required Apostille services.