Punjabi interpreting & translation services

Punjabi is spoken by well over 100 million people in Pakistan and India and is one of the most spoken languages in the world. California has one of the largest Punjabi communities in the United States, rooted in the Central Valley around Yuba City, Fresno, Bakersfield, and Stockton, and prominent in the trucking, agriculture, and small-business sectors. Punjabi is a California court-designated language.

Punjabi is written in two scripts: Gurmukhi in India, used by the Sikh community, and Shahmukhi, a Perso-Arabic script, in Pakistan. Spoken Punjabi is largely shared across the border, but vocabulary borrowed from Hindi or Urdu differs, and religious and cultural context matters. Focus Interpreting confirms the speaker's background and assigns court-certified and medically qualified Punjabi interpreters for healthcare, DMV and commercial driver matters, workers' compensation, and court proceedings.

Certified Punjabi translation of Indian and Pakistani birth certificates, marriage records, driving licenses, academic transcripts, and affidavits is prepared by translators fluent in the relevant script. Because Shahmukhi runs right to left, our desktop publishing team handles layout for any printed Pakistani-Punjabi materials.