Greek Translation - Greek to Georgian and Georgian to Greek

This page covers written translation. For an interpreter at a notary, a meeting or a medical appointment, see the Greek interpreter page.

Greek documents look straightforward until you meet the details: a patronymic and a mother's name on nearly every certificate, a transliterated Latin form that must match the passport, and a mix of modern monotonic and older polytonic spelling in some records. We deal with each of these deliberately rather than leave them to chance.

Which Greek documents we translate

Greek into Georgian

Greek documents come into Georgian when a Georgian office needs to act on them: a birth or marriage registered in Greece being recorded in Georgia, a Greek court decision on divorce or custody, a pension or insurance record, a Greek property or inheritance document. We translate every field, stamp and annotation.

Greek civil status certificates are structured as forms with many numbered fields and standard abbreviations. We translate each field in place, write out the abbreviations and keep the order of the original, so the Georgian reader can compare the translation with the document line by line.

Georgian into Greek

Georgian documents go into Greek for the Greek embassy, the decentralised administrations that issue residence permits, municipalities, courts, employers and universities. The translation uses modern Greek official style and the monotonic spelling system in use since 1982.

Greek offices record the father's and often the mother's name. Georgian documents show a patronymic in some cases and not in others. We translate what the document contains and do not add names that are not there; if the Greek office needs them, the correct route is a separate document, and we will tell you which.

Greek translation for the embassy, family reunification and residence

Visa and residence applications for Greece - for work, family reunification, study or independent means - usually need Georgian civil status documents, the criminal record certificate and, depending on the category, medical certificates and proof of income, with apostilles and Greek translations.

Family reunification typically requires the marriage certificate and the children's birth certificates, and later the same documents are used for the residence permit and for school registration. In Greece, official translations are commonly handled by the translation service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or certified by a Greek lawyer; many embassy procedures accept a translation certified in Georgia. We confirm the form before starting.

The Greek alphabet, names and ELOT 743

Greek names on official documents are written in Greek letters, and their Latin form in passports follows the ELOT 743 transliteration standard. When a Greek name appears in a Georgian translation, we render it in Georgian from the Greek form and give the Latin form from the passport, so that all three spellings can be linked.

When a Georgian name goes into Greek, it is written in Greek letters according to its pronunciation, with the Latin passport spelling alongside. This matters because Greek registries search by the Latin form: a translation that transliterates the Greek spelling back to Latin differently from the passport can create two records for one person.

Legal, medical and business Greek

Church and religious texts in Greek

Georgia and Greece share the Orthodox tradition, and some of our work involves church documents, liturgical texts and older records written in the polytonic system with its accents and breathings. These require a translator familiar with ecclesiastical Greek, not only the modern administrative language.

Older civil and parish records may mix the formal "katharevousa" style with modern Greek. We translate them with attention to the period of the document and note any passages where the original is damaged or illegible, rather than fill in the gaps.

Greek translation with notarization and apostille

For official use in Georgia a Greek translation is notarized. Georgia and Greece are both parties to the Apostille Convention, so Georgian public documents for Greece usually carry an apostille, which we translate together with the document. See notarization and apostille and legalization.

How a Greek translation order runs

Price and turnaround for Greek translation

The price depends on the direction, the volume, the subject and the certification. Church texts and older handwritten records are priced individually after we see them. See translation prices.

A standard certificate is usually ready within one or two working days; larger packages and specialist texts take longer. Give us your appointment date or deadline in Greece, and we will plan around it.

Frequently asked questions about Greek translation

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