Languages
Interpreting New Zealand currently has over 250 interpreters in over 80 languages. The list of languages spoken by our interpreters and translators is constantly changing. Please contact us if you require a language that is not listed below. You can also find a list of our most current languages here, or a list of our face-to-face languages by region.
Note: Available languages vary with current interpreters. For a complete list of current (up-to-date) languages please refer to these two PDF lists:
Afghani language (Dari)
Amharic
Arabic
Assyrian
Bangla
Bhutanese (see Nepali)
Bosnian
Bulgarian
Burmese/Myanmar Languages
Burmese
Chin Falam
Chin Hakha
Chin Mizo
Cambodian Languages
Khmer
Teochew
Cantonese
Chin Languages
Chin Falam (Myanmar)
Chin Hakha (Myanmar)
Chin Mizo (Myanmar)
Chinese Languages
Cantonese
Fookien
Mandarin
Hakka
Hokkien
Teochew
Seyip
Shanghai dialect
Cook Island Maori
Croatian
Czech
Dari
Eritrean Language (Tigrinya)
Ethiopian Languages
Amharic
Oromo
Tigrinya
Farsi
Filipino Language (Tagalog)
Fiji Hindi
Fijian
Fookien
French
German
Greek
Gujarati
Hakka
Hindi
Hockien
Hungarian
Indian Languages
Gujarati
Hindi
Malayalam
Punjabi
Tamil
Indonesian Language (Bahasa Indonesia)
Iranian Language (Farsi)
Italian
Japanese
Karen
Karenni/Kayah (Myanmar)
Kayan (Myanmar)
Khmer
Kiribati
Kirundi
Korean
Lao
Lebansese Arabic
Malay (Bahasa Melayu)
Malayalam
Mandarin
Mongolian
Monthenegro
Myanmar Languages
Burmese
Chin Falam
Chin Hakha
Chin Mizo
Karen
Karenni/Kayah
Kayan
Tedim
Zomi
Nepali/Napalese (Spoken by many Bhutanese)
Oromo
Pashto
Persian Language (Farsi)
Phillippines Language (Tagalog)
Polish
Portuguese
Punjabi
Rarotongan (Cook Island Maori)
Rohingya (Myanmar)
Romanian
Russian
Samoan
Serbian
Seyip
Shanghai dialect
Sign Language (New Zealand Sign Language)
Singhalese
Slovak
Somali
Spanish
Sri Lankan Languages
Sinhalese
Tamil
Sudanese Arabic
Swahili
Tagalog
Tamil
Tedim (Myanmar)
Teochew
Thai
Tigrinya
Tokelauan
Tongan
Turkish
Tuvaluan
Ukrainian
Urdu
Vietnamese
Yugoslavian (former) Languages
Bosnian
Croatian
Serbian
Zomi/Tedim