Nauruan interpreters for the rare US case that needs one, usually by phone or video, plus certified translation of documents genuinely written in Nauruan.
Prism Linguistics provides Nauruan interpreters for USCIS interviews, court hearings and medical appointments anywhere in the United States, nearly always by phone or video, together with certified translation of documents actually written in Nauruan; it is one of the rarest languages we are asked for.
Last reviewed September 2, 2026 by Sarah J, Prism Linguistics
Nauruan is among the rarest languages anyone asks us for. It is the language of Nauru, a Pacific island nation of a few thousand people, with roughly nine thousand native speakers in the whole world. Almost every Nauruan who reaches the United States also speaks English, the working language of government and school back home, so the first thing we establish is whether a Nauruan interpreter is genuinely required or whether English will serve. Our office is in New York, and a Nauruan assignment is handled by phone or video as a matter of course.
We are candid about scarcity from the first call. With so few speakers anywhere, an in-person Nauruan interpreter is not something we can promise on short notice, and we quote the real lead time rather than a hopeful one. A Nauruan interpreter earns its place when an older speaker gives evidence, when a medical history has to be taken word for word, or when a court or officer wants testimony in the language the person actually thinks in. Nauruan is precisely the sort of language courts turn to us for, because ordinary providers cannot field it at all.
No state certifies court interpreters in Nauruan, so a hearing that needs one runs with a qualified Nauruan interpreter, almost always over video. We check that the court will accept remote interpreting for the proceeding, and we are honest about how much notice it takes to line a speaker up. Where the witness is comfortable in English, we say so; where the case truly needs Nauruan, we do the harder work of finding it. Prism handles the assignment as a private agency, not as a court-appointed vendor.
Nauruan requests at USCIS are few, and most applicants can complete an interview in English. When one does call for Nauruan, usually an older applicant, we place a qualified interpreter and brief them to render each answer as spoken rather than tidy it. We will not seat a bilingual relative in the interpreter's chair, and we flag early if the timing for a rare Nauruan booking needs building into the schedule.
For a language this small, a video or phone line is not second best; it is what makes a Nauruan interpreter reachable at all. A qualified speaker may be one of only a handful in the country, and a screen brings that person into a clinic, an attorney's office or a remote hearing without waiting on travel. In-person attendance is possible for the cases that require it, but we set honest expectations about how long placing it can take.
Most Nauruan applicants need no translation of their vital records at all. Nauru issues birth, marriage, death and divorce certificates in English, from the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages in Yaren District, so USCIS takes them as they stand. The Nauruan translation we are actually asked for is the document genuinely in the language: a letter, an affidavit, a church record, or a land paper, and now and then an English document that a relative on the island needs rendered into Nauruan. Because so few translators have ever handled Nauruan, this is specialist work. We translate the Nauruan text in full, spell names to the passport, and sign it with a Certificate of Translation Accuracy. The full service is at certified translation.
Tell us the date, the city and the setting, or send a clear scan of the document. We reply with a fixed price and, for interpreting, a named linguist. Call +1 (833) 282 8883, email info@prismlinguistics.com, or use the quote form and you will hear back within 60 minutes during business hours.
Our only office is in New York, and our Nauruan interpreters work nationwide. For in-person work we assign someone based in or near the city. These are the areas where Nauruan work is concentrated; the full list of 288 cities is below it.
Prism Linguistics is rated 4.6 out of 5 across 67 client reviews for its interpreting and translation work in the United States. That is the company-wide figure; we do not publish a separate rating per language because there is no honest way to measure one. If a Nauruan assignment ever falls short, tell us and we put it right.