Portuguese Legal Translation Service

Our specialist Portuguese legal translators work for a wide range of legal and associated professions. Solicitors, courts, police stations, prisons, accountants, public sector organisations, EU organisations, businesses and individuals have all used our services.

Our Portuguese legal translators translate letters, certificates, statements, audits, contracts, patents, summons, and other legal papers.

Our vetted translators specialise in different areas of law or types of legal documentation, so you can be sure that the right specialist will be assigned to the work.

Many Portuguese translations of documents and certificates need to be notarised or certified before they will be accepted as “true” translations. To find out more, visit our Certified, Notarised , FCO Legalisation pages.

As well as offering a professional and confidential Portuguese legal translation service, Knockhundred also has available a team of Portuguese legal transcribers in a wide range of languages. To find out more, visit our Portuguese transcription service page.

Confidentiality during the translation process

As part of our contract with you, we and our Portuguese linguists are required to keep all material confidential that is not in the public domain. We are also happy to sign more specific confidentiality agreements if required.

Please refer to our client feedback page to learn more about the unbeatable Portuguese language service we offer.

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WHILE YOU’RE HERE... SOME QUITE INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE Portuguese LANGUAGE

Portuguese is a Romance language spoken by about 220 million people mainly in Portugal and Brazil (Brasil), and also in Angola, Mozambique (Moçambique), Cape Verde (Cabo Verde), Guinea-Bissau (Guiné-Bissau), São Tomé e Principe, East Timor (Timor-Leste), Equatorial Guinea and Macau. There are also communities of Portuguese speakers in Goa, Daman and Diu in India, and in Malacca in Malaysia. Portuguese is a descendent of Latin, which was brought to the Iberian Peninsula by Roman soldiers, settlers and merchants from 218 BC. The earliest records of a distinctly Portuguese language appear in administrative documents dating from the 9th century AD. In 1290 King Denis decreed that Portuguese, then simply called the "Vulgar language" should be known as the Portuguese language and should be officially used. A reformed Portuguese orthography (nova ortografia), in which words were spelled more in accordance with their pronunciation, was adopted is Portugal in 1916. A slightly modified form was adopted in Brazil in 1943 and revised in 1970. A new orthography which aims to unify the written Portuguese of all the lusophone countries was adopted in Brazil in 2009. Dates have yet to be set for its adoption in the other Portuguese-speaking countries.

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Portuguese SAMPLE TEXT

Todos os seres humanos nascem livres e iguais em dignidade e em direitos. Dotados de razão e de consciência, devem agir uns para com os outros em espírito de fraternidade.

Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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AND LASTLY, A Portuguese Tongue Twister

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