Major languages
English (UK, US and further variants), French (France and Canada), Spanish, German, Portuguese (Portugal and Brazil), Italian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese and Arabic.
Languages. Service. Quality. Technology.
Your content.
In your market’s language.
We combine 80+ languages with the expertise and production approach your project needs. For clear texts, engaging voices and media that work in their target markets.
Translation · Voice-over · Subtitling · Transcription · Multilingual typesetting
Languages. Service. Quality. Technology.
- Turnaround
- Hours–days
depending on project volume and requirements
- Experience
- 30+ years
localization experience at zappmedia GmbH, since 1993
- Projects
- 90,000+
completed localization projects
- Client testimonials
- 1,047
published feedback from our clients
- Languages
- 80+
for translation, voice recording, subtitling and transcription
- Certification
- ISO 9001
TÜV-audited quality management at zappmedia GmbH, since 2006
Languages & regional variants.
European languages
Also Dutch, Greek, Swedish, Finnish, Danish, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Slovenian, Slovak, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Romanian and Bulgarian.
Asia & Middle East
Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Bengali, Arabic, Turkish, Thai and Vietnamese; additional languages and variants on request.
Further languages
We assess African languages, less common pairs and historical languages based on the subject and desired result.
Language pairs at a glance.
99 previously published translation directions. We assess additional pairs on request; the list does not guarantee availability for every subject or production method.
View all language pairs
- German→English
- German→Japanese
- English→Japanese
- German→Spanish
- English→Spanish
- German→Chinese
- English→Chinese
- German→French
- German→Portuguese
- German→Russian
- German→Italian
- German→Turkish
- German→Korean
- German→Polish
- German→Dutch
- German→Greek
- German→Swedish
- German→Danish
- German→Finnish
- German→Norwegian
- German→Icelandic
- German→Thai
- German→Arabic
- German→Persian
- German→Bulgarian
- German→Croatian
- German→Hungarian
- German→Serbian
- German→Czech
- German→Slovak
- German→Slovenian
- German→Romanian
- German→Moldovan (Romanian)
- German→Ukrainian
- German→Belarusian
- German→Serbo-Croatian
- German→Montenegrin
- German→Estonian
- German→Latvian
- German→Lithuanian
- German→Bosnian
- German→Catalan
- German→Basque
- German→Maltese
- German→Flemish
- German→Frisian
- German→Sorbian
- German→Albanian
- German→Latin
- German→Ancient Greek
- German→Hebrew
- German→Armenian
- German→Georgian
- German→Azerbaijani
- German→Turkmen
- German→Kazakh
- German→Uzbek
- German→Tajik
- German→Kyrgyz
- German→Uyghur
- German→Pashto
- German→Urdu
- German→Hindi
- German→Punjabi
- German→Gujarati
- German→Kannada
- German→Kashmiri
- German→Konkani
- German→Malayalam
- German→Manipuri
- German→Marathi
- German→Nepali
- German→Odia
- German→Sanskrit
- German→Sindhi
- German→Telugu
- German→Assamese
- German→Tamil
- German→Sinhala
- German→Bengali
- German→Burmese
- German→Lao
- German→Khmer
- German→Vietnamese
- German→Malay
- German→Indonesian
- German→Filipino
- German→Mongolian
- German→Kurdish
- German→Afrikaans
- German→Amharic
- German→Swahili
- German→Somali
- German→Zulu
- German→Quechua
- German→Aymara
- German→Guarani
- German→Creole
- German→Pidgin
Look up language names & codes
Two-letter language codes identify a language, but do not automatically specify region, script or spoken variety. This reference is not a service availability list.
| Language | Code | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Oromo | om | Language code |
| Latvian | lv | Language code |
| Abkhazian | ab | Language code |
| Lingala | ln | Language code |
| Afar | aa | Language code |
| Lithuanian | lt | Language code |
| Afrikaans | af | Language code |
| Macedonian | mk | Language code |
| Albanian | sq | Language code |
| Malagasy | mg | Language code |
| Amharic | am | Language code |
| Malay | ms | Language code |
| Arabic | ar | Language code |
| Malayalam | ml | Language code |
| Armenian | hy | Language code |
| Maltese | mt | Language code |
| Assamese | as | Language code |
| Maori | mi | Language code |
| Aymara | ay | Language code |
| Marathi | mr | Language code |
| Azerbaijani | az | Language code |
| Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan | ro | Language code |
| Bashkir | ba | Language code |
| Mongolian | mn | Language code |
| Basque | eu | Language code |
| Nauru | na | Language code |
| Bengali | bn | Language code |
| Nepali | ne | Language code |
| Dzongkha | dz | Language code |
| Norwegian | no | Language code |
| Bihari languages | bh | Language code |
| Occitan (post 1500); Provençal | oc | Language code |
| Bislama | bi | Language code |
| Oriya | or | Language code |
| Breton | br | Language code |
| Pushto; Pashto | ps | Language code |
| Bulgarian | bg | Language code |
| Persian | fa | Language code |
| Burmese | my | Language code |
| Polish | pl | Language code |
| Belarusian | be | Language code |
| Portuguese | pt | Language code |
| Central Khmer | km | Language code |
| Panjabi; Punjabi | pa | Language code |
| Catalan; Valencian | ca | Language code |
| Quechua | qu | Language code |
| Chinese | zh | Language code |
| Romansh | rm | Language code |
| Corsican | co | Language code |
| Romanian; Moldavian; Moldovan | ro | Language code |
| Croatian | hr | Language code |
| Russian | ru | Language code |
| Czech | cs | Language code |
| Samoan | sm | Language code |
| Danish | da | Language code |
| Sango | sg | Language code |
| Dutch; Flemish | nl | Language code |
| Sanskrit | sa | Language code |
| English | en | Language code |
| Gaelic; Scottish Gaelic | gd | Language code |
| Esperanto | eo | Language code |
| Serbian | sr | Language code |
| Estonian | et | Language code |
| Serbo-Croatian | sh | Deprecated code; specify Bosnian (bs), Croatian (hr) or Serbian (sr) today |
| Faroese | fo | Language code |
| Sotho, Southern | st | Language code |
| Fijian | fj | Language code |
| Tswana | tn | Language code |
| Finnish | fi | Language code |
| Shona | sn | Language code |
| French | fr | Language code |
| Sindhi | sd | Language code |
| Western Frisian | fy | Language code |
| Sinhala; Sinhalese | si | Language code |
| Galician | gl | Language code |
| Swati | ss | Language code |
| Georgian | ka | Language code |
| Slovak | sk | Language code |
| German | de | Language code |
| Slovenian | sl | Language code |
| Greek, Modern (1453-) | el | Language code |
| Somali | so | Language code |
| Kalaallisut; Greenlandic | kl | Language code |
| Spanish; Castilian | es | Language code |
| Guarani | gn | Language code |
| Sundanese | su | Language code |
| Gujarati | gu | Language code |
| Swahili | sw | Language code |
| Hausa | ha | Language code |
| Swedish | sv | Language code |
| Hebrew | he | Language code |
| Tagalog | tl | Language code |
| Hindi | hi | Language code |
| Tajik | tg | Language code |
| Hungarian | hu | Language code |
| Tamil | ta | Language code |
| Icelandic | is | Language code |
| Tatar | tt | Language code |
| Indonesian | id | Language code |
| Telugu | te | Language code |
| Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association) | ia | Language code |
| Thai | th | Language code |
| Interlingue; Occidental | ie | Language code |
| Tibetan | bo | Language code |
| Inupiaq | ik | Language code |
| Tigrinya | ti | Language code |
| Inuktitut | iu | Language code |
| Tonga (Tonga Islands) | to | Language code |
| Irish | ga | Language code |
| Tsonga | ts | Language code |
| Italian | it | Language code |
| Turkish | tr | Language code |
| Japanese | ja | Language code |
| Turkmen | tk | Language code |
| Javanese | jv | Language code |
| Twi | tw | Language code |
| Kannada | kn | Language code |
| Uighur; Uyghur | ug | Language code |
| Kashmiri | ks | Language code |
| Ukrainian | uk | Language code |
| Kazakh | kk | Language code |
| Urdu | ur | Language code |
| Kinyarwanda | rw | Language code |
| Uzbek | uz | Language code |
| Kirghiz; Kyrgyz | ky | Language code |
| Vietnamese | vi | Language code |
| Rundi | rn | Language code |
| Volapük | vo | Language code |
| Korean | ko | Language code |
| Welsh | cy | Language code |
| Kurdish | ku | Language code |
| Wolof | wo | Language code |
| Lao | lo | Language code |
| Xhosa | xh | Language code |
| Latin | la | Language code |
| Yiddish | yi | Language code |
| Yoruba | yo | Language code |
| Zhuang; Chuang | za | Language code |
| Zulu | zu | Language code |
Subjects & document types
Our network combines language and subject expertise. We assess the specific combination using your material.
Technology & industry
Automotive and vehicle manufacturing, mechanical and plant engineering, mechanics, CAD, electronics, electrical engineering, energy and building services, metal construction, mining, optics, woodworking, hardware, telecommunications, shipbuilding and aviation.
Construction & property
Architecture, building and civil engineering, construction, refurbishment, property, letting, skilled trades and engineering consultancies.
Science & health
Biology, biotechnology, genetic engineering, chemistry, pharmacy, medicine, surgery, dental technology, research, physics, mathematics, geography, cartography, natural sciences, humanities, social sciences and sociology.
Business & finance
Banking, financial trading, accounting, balance sheets, economics, insurance, tax advice, foreign trade, wholesale and retail, inventory management, logistics, industrial trade, distribution and sales.
Law & administration
Legal documents, contracts, purchase, tenancy, lease and licence agreements, wills, inheritance, commercial registers, public administration, politics and military subjects.
Patents & quality
Patent specifications, applications, patent searches, quality inspection and quality assurance.
IT & digital media
Software, SAP, computers, IT, data processing, the internet, web design, websites, online media, multimedia, audio and video technology, communications and word processing.
Marketing & press
Advertising, marketing copy, ad copy, claims, promotion, direct, online, web and e-marketing, public relations, journalism, press reports, press releases and employee magazines.
Culture & media
Art, literature, music, film, broadcasting, TV, theatre, acting, design, photography, publishing, magazines, German studies, religion and theology.
Education & people
Education, further training, teaching, coaching, HR consulting, recruitment, job applications, associations, children and business correspondence.
Tourism & leisure
Travel, holidays, tourism, transport, accommodation, hospitality, restaurants, cooking, food and drink, entertainment, leisure, hobbies, sport, fitness and wellness.
Consumer, nature & further subjects
Textiles, fashion design, shoes, jewellery, cosmetics, shopping, food products, agriculture, animals, animal breeding, floristry, environment and environmental engineering; also auctions, detective services, funerals, astrology and exhibition construction.
Documents & communication
Manuals, workshop, user and operating instructions, technical documentation, annual reports and business letters, business plans, prospectuses, corporate and sales leaflets, brochures, certificates, manuscripts, voice-over and speech texts, and scripts.
Typesetting & print preparation
DTP, desktop publishing, fonts and character sets, prepress, phototypesetting, film and plate exposure, and photo and digital printing: we establish the appropriate current production approach for your files.
One project.
Many language versions.
We establish the region, audience, medium and subject as well as the target language.
Specialist translation
Law, technology, science, finance and communications – with subject specialists and agreed terminology.
Audio & video
500+ professional voice actors in 40+ languages. Translation, direction, recording, subtitles and post-production in a coordinated workflow.
Layout & publishing
We account for scripts, reading direction, regional formats and text length in documents, websites, software and media.
One language.
Different markets.
English varies from market to market. A language code alone does not provide a complete brief.
Regional variants
For example, English for the UK or US, French for France or Canada, Portuguese for Portugal or Brazil, and Spanish for the intended market.
Script & reading direction
Chinese requires a choice between simplified and traditional characters. Arabic and Hebrew require carefully adapted right-to-left layouts.
The right specialists
Language pair, subject and intended use guide our selection. We assess additional languages, African languages and less common combinations on request.
Documents & deliverables
Specify clearly.
Plan confidently.
These details help us assign the right specialists and plan the production.
- Source and target languages, including regions
- Medium: text, audio, video, website or software
- Subject, audience and existing terminology
- File formats, volume, approvals and preferred deadline
Your brief.
Our shared plan.
From the language pair to the approved language version.
Define the languages
Tell us the source language, target markets and intended use. We clarify variants, subject and source material.
Agree the quote
Your individual quote brings together services, resources, checks and delivery schedule.
Produce & check
We coordinate translation and media production, followed by the agreed language and technical checks.
Deliver language versions
You receive the agreed files, with delivery through the customer portal and project tracking if required.
The right combination.
A clear quote.
Our price lists provide guidance for translation and audio. Your quote accounts for language pair, subject, medium and volume.
80+ languages refers to our overall service range. Professional voice recording uses a dedicated network covering 40+ languages. We confirm availability and variants before you commission the project.
Your individual quote and agreed scope apply to your project.
Explore price listsQuestions & answers
Is every service available in every language?
The 80+ languages refer to our overall language and media range. We check the requested combination, subject and production method before quoting. Professional voice talent is available in 40+ languages.
Which language variant should we request?
Specify the market and audience, such as the US, UK, Canada or Brazil. For Chinese, we also establish the script; for audio, we clarify the spoken variety.
What if our language pair is not listed?
The overview shows previously published pairs and is not an exhaustive availability list. We are happy to assess additional languages and translation directions for your project.
Where can we explore synthetic voices and TTS?
Synthetic text-to-speech voices, a sample and current prices are covered in the dedicated zappmedia.io module. Our voice-talent page presents professional human voices and online casting.
Client references from zappmedia
A selection of our clients and partners.
Your project. Your quote.
Send us your source material, target languages and preferred deadline. We clarify the requirements and quote for the services your project needs.