Punjabi translation services

Punjabi translation is priced per word for text and per minute for audiovisual, depending on volume, subject matter and turnaround, with confirming the market and the script 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 Punjabi linguists handle every translation, and a second native linguist independently reviews each text in the script it is delivered in, so a Gurmukhi file and a Shahmukhi file are each checked on their own terms rather than one being converted and left unchecked.

Yes — Punjabi translation, subtitling and voice over all come from one team, working to a single glossary throughout. The script question applies to the written files; for voice over, the brief is about the audience and the voice.

It depends on where your audience is. Gurmukhi is used in India, where the state of Punjab defines its official language as Punjabi in Gurmukhi script; Shahmukhi, the Arabic-based script, is used in Pakistan. We always ask the market before we start, because the English source cannot tell us.

Not by changing the font. The scripts are different systems and Shahmukhi runs right to left, so a second version is prepared by a native linguist and reviewed like any other translation. If you know from the start that you need both, we plan them as two deliverables.

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

Usually because the file is being handled as left-to-right text somewhere in the chain. Arabic-script subtitles need a player, template or burn-in workflow that supports right-to-left display. We deliver files prepared for it, and we can check existing ones to find where the order breaks.

Yes. Punjabi was the mother tongue of roughly 33 million people in India at the 2011 census and of 88.9 million in Pakistan at the 2023 census. We produce Gurmukhi for India and Shahmukhi for Pakistan, and two separate versions when a project serves both.

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.