Malayalam translation services

Malayalam translation is priced per word for text and per minute for audiovisual, depending on volume, subject matter and turnaround, with agreeing the script style included as part of the brief rather than billed as an extra step. Send your files and we will come back with a free, itemised quote, backed by our Price Match Promise.

Yes. Native Malayalam linguists handle every translation, and a second native linguist independently reviews each text. Rendered files are also checked on screen, so the script style is the one agreed rather than whatever a tool's default font happened to produce.

Yes — Malayalam translation, subtitling and voice over all come from one team, working to a single glossary and one script style throughout, so the subtitles, the on-screen graphics and the script all look like the same project.

The 1971 reform changed how some letters are drawn, not the language: the u and uu vowel signs became separate marks instead of being joined to the consonant, and many stacked conjuncts were written in a line. Both styles are read today. The underlying Unicode text is the same, so the difference appears only when a font draws it.

If you have existing Malayalam material, usually the style it already uses, so new work matches. For schools and young learners, the traditional style Kerala's textbooks are moving to. For everything else we recommend one at the brief and hold it across every deliverable.

Yes — audiovisual is our specialisation. We deliver spotted SRT/VTT and timed two-column voice-over scripts, plus translated text when you need it.

Yes — this is one decision that does not need retranslation, because the text is the same in both styles, unless joiner characters have been used to force particular forms, which we avoid unless you ask for them. It does mean changing the font everywhere the text is rendered and re-exporting, so it is cheaper to decide before the first render.

Yes. Written Malayalam is the same standard wherever its readers are, and the script style question applies wherever the text is displayed. Where a voice-over should sound local to a particular region, we brief that for the voice separately from the written text.

Most short documents are delivered within 24 to 48 hours. Word count, subject complexity and turnaround all move the date, and your project manager will confirm the timeline at the start.

Less than people expect: the document, script or subtitle file, its word count, what the text is actually for, and the date you need it by. A draft is fine — we would rather quote on what exists than wait for a final version that eats your deadline. A named project manager comes back with an itemised quote, normally within four working hours.

More than half of enquiries get a reply within thirty minutes during office hours (Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm UK time), and the itemised quote normally follows within four working hours. After that you have one dedicated project manager who owns the job from brief to final file — not a ticket queue, and not a different name on every email. If it is easier, call +44 207 095 5730 and ask for them by name.

Yes, and it is one of the commonest reasons people get in touch. Tell us it is for a pitch and you get a figure you can put in front of your own client, itemised so it stands up to being picked apart, with no obligation and no follow-up sales calls if the pitch goes elsewhere. If it lands, the quote still holds and we already know the project.