Prism Linguistics provides professional Nuer interpreters and certified translation across Canada, mostly for South Sudanese refugee, IRCC and medical matters. Nuer is a Nilotic language of South Sudan and western Ethiopia, and its community in Canada is found notably in the Prairie cities of Calgary and Edmonton. Because civil records are often scarce, files frequently rest on sworn declarations, and support is delivered on site where a speaker is near or by telephone and video nationwide.
Last reviewed September 6, 2026 by the Prism Linguistics editorial team
Most Nuer work is interpreting, and it is common in Immigration and Refugee Board hearings, since South Sudan is a country of origin, and in medical, mental-health and settlement appointments. Records are scarce, so oral testimony carries the file, and a claimant under stress is far more precise in Nuer, which is why a qualified interpreter is important and a claim can turn on a single phrase.
Nuer has dialect variation, and a speaker may also use Arabic, Dinka or English, so we ask about home area and first language at intake and match accordingly rather than assume. The community here is small and dispersed, so interpreting is often by telephone or video, with on-site attendance where an interpreter is near, and we flag a gender preference where a client raises it.
Common settings include legal and court interpreting, medical and hospital interpreting, IRCC and Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) interviews, and police and enforcement work. See all on-site interpreting options or start a free quote.
Nuer is written in the Latin alphabet with added letters and diacritics for its vowels and tones. South Sudan is a young country that has seen long conflict, so many speakers hold few civil records and a birth or marriage may never have been registered, which shapes what a Canadian file can contain.
Because of this, files often rest on a sworn declaration of age or identity before a commissioner of oaths rather than a certificate, and any documents that do exist may be in Arabic from the earlier Sudanese period or in English. We translate what a claimant holds, render a Nuer statement into clear English, report names, dates and stamps as printed, and note where a date is estimated. Nuer names follow a given name with a father's and grandfather's name, and we set out that order plainly. Prism is a private agency, not a court-appointed body, and acceptance ultimately depends on the receiving institution.
For documents rather than spoken interpreting, see certified Nuer translation, our full Nuer translation services, or general document translation. Every translation moves through our TEP workflow — translation, editing and proofreading by separate linguists — with free revisions.
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We arrange Nuer interpreters in cities across every province and territory — on site in the major centres and by telephone or video everywhere else:
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Nuer (Naath) is a Nilotic language spoken by around 2 million people, primarily in South Sudan and the western Ethiopian borderlands. The Nuer are the second-largest ethnic group in South Sudan after the Dinka. The Nuer-speaking community in Canada is concentrated in cities that received South Sudanese refugee resettlement - Calgary, Edmonton, and Winnipeg among them. Our Nuer translation work is overwhelmingly IRB refugee and family-sponsorship paperwork, alongside the healthcare and school-enrolment documents tied to refugee resettlement.
Yes. Civil registration is scarce in South Sudan, so files often rest on a sworn declaration of age or identity, which we translate exactly and note where a date is estimated. Whether it satisfies IRCC is decided by the receiving institution.
No. Older records from the Sudanese period may be in Arabic, so we translate those alongside any English documents and any Nuer statement, reporting names, dates and stamps as printed.
Yes. We ask about home area and first language at intake, since a speaker may also use Arabic or Dinka, and we flag a gender preference where a client raises it, which can matter in a hearing.
Often by telephone or video, so we can reach a matched Nuer speaker anywhere in Canada, with on-site attendance where an interpreter is near.
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