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Translate your church service into any language

155+ languages, real-time, no app for your congregation. Select a language below for a church-specific guide covering diaspora context, Bible availability, and setup tips.

Language guides

Pashto

پښتو

RTL

Pashto is distinct from Dari, even though both are official languages of Afghanistan and o

Kurdish (Sorani)

کوردی سۆرانی

RTL

Sorani, also called Central Kurdish, is used mainly by Kurds from Iraq and Iran and is not

Oromo

Afaan Oromoo

Afaan Oromo is one of Ethiopia's most widely spoken languages and carries its own Christia

Luganda

Oluganda

Luganda is the principal language of the Baganda people and a major language of Christian

Krio

Krio

Krio is understood across Sierra Leone and is a language of preaching, testimony and every

Ewe

Eʋegbe

Ewe is spoken across Ghana's Volta Region, southern Togo and diaspora communities. Voco le

Ga

Ga

Ga is the historic language of Accra and the Ga people, and it should not be folded into T

Chichewa

Chichewa

Chichewa is Malawi's national language and is also known as Chinyanja in Zambia and parts

Lingala

Lingála

Lingala is the heart language of most Congolese diaspora Christians in the UK and Western

Malayalam

മലയാളം

Malayalam is the language of one of the oldest Christian communities in the world, and one

Shona

chiShona

Shona is the most widely spoken language in Zimbabwe and the heart language of most Zimbab

Urdu

اردو

RTL

Urdu is the shared language of Pakistani Christian communities in Britain — a small, long-

Farsi

فارسی

RTL

Farsi (Persian) is one of the most important languages for diaspora church ministry in the

Spanish

Español

Spanish is the most requested language for church translation in the US and increasingly i

Portuguese

Português

Portuguese — especially Brazilian Portuguese — is one of the fastest-growing church langua

Mandarin Chinese

普通话

Mandarin Chinese is among the most requested languages for diaspora church ministry global

French

Français

French is the primary language of many West and Central African diaspora congregations — C

Arabic

العربية

RTL

Arabic-speaking Christians — from Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, and Sudan — are a s

Korean

한국어

South Korea has one of the highest rates of Christianity of any non-Western nation, and Ko

Ukrainian

Українська

Since 2022, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees have settled across the UK and Eur

Tagalog / Filipino

Filipino

The Philippines is one of the most Christian nations in Asia, and the Filipino diaspora —

Amharic

አማርኛ

Ethiopia is one of the oldest Christian nations in the world, and the Ethiopian and Eritre

Romanian

Română

Romania has one of the highest rates of evangelical church attendance in Europe, and the R

Polish

Polski

Polish is one of the largest diaspora languages in the UK, with over 900,000 Polish-born r

Hindi

हिन्दी

India has one of the largest and fastest-growing Christian populations in the world, and S

Swahili

Kiswahili

Swahili is the lingua franca of East Africa, spoken by over 200 million people across Keny

Yoruba

Yorùbá

Yoruba is spoken by over 50 million people, with a global diaspora concentrated in the UK,

Twi

Twi (Akan)

Twi (part of the Akan language family) is the most widely spoken language in Ghana and the

Vietnamese

Tiếng Việt

Vietnamese is spoken by over 90 million people, with diaspora communities across the US, A

German

Deutsch

German is widely spoken across Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and diaspora communities. In

Somali

Soomaali

The Somali Christian diaspora is a small but rapidly growing community with unique pastora

Russian

Русский

Russian is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, with diaspora communities

Punjabi

ਪੰਜਾਬੀ

Punjabi is the third most spoken language in England and Wales, with a large diaspora conc

Bengali

বাংলা

Bengali (Bangla) is one of the most spoken languages in the world, with a large diaspora c

Tamil

தமிழ்

Tamil is one of the oldest classical languages in the world, with a significant diaspora c

Turkish

Türkçe

Turkish is spoken by over 80 million people, with significant diaspora communities in Germ

Dutch

Nederlands

Dutch is spoken by over 24 million people across the Netherlands, Belgium, Suriname, and d

Italian

Italiano

Italian is spoken by over 65 million people, with significant diaspora communities in the

Japanese

日本語

Japan has a small but vibrant Christian community — around 1% of the population — and the

Indonesian

Bahasa Indonesia

Indonesia has the world's largest Muslim population, but also around 30 million Christians

Hausa

Hausa

Hausa is spoken by over 70 million people across Nigeria, Niger, Ghana, and the wider West

Igbo

Asụsụ Igbo

Igbo is one of Nigeria's three major languages, spoken by over 40 million people predomina

Tigrinya

ትግርኛ

Tigrinya is the primary language of Eritrea and the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, sp

Nepali

नेपाली

Nepal has one of the fastest-growing Christian populations in Asia — the church grew from

Greek

Ελληνικά

Greek holds a unique place in Christian history as the language of the New Testament, and

Dari / Pashto

دری / پښتو

RTL

Dari (Afghan Persian) and Pashto are the two official languages of Afghanistan and the hea

Czech / Slovak

Čeština / Slovenčina

Czech and Slovak are closely related West Slavic languages spoken by around 16 million peo

Serbian / Croatian

Srpski / Hrvatski

Serbian and Croatian are South Slavic languages spoken across the Western Balkans — Serbia

Sinhala

සිංහල

Sinhala is spoken by around 17 million people, primarily Sinhalese Sri Lankans. Sri Lanka'

Thai

ภาษาไทย

Thailand is around 0.5% Christian, but Thai Christians — particularly evangelical Protesta

Cantonese

廣東話

Cantonese is spoken by around 85 million people, primarily in Hong Kong, Guangdong provinc

Malay

Bahasa Melayu

Malay (Bahasa Malaysia / Bahasa Melayu) is spoken by around 80 million people across Malay

Built for diaspora congregations

Most church translation tools are built for conference centres and event halls. Voco is built specifically for churches — including diaspora congregations where the preacher and congregation may be working between two or three languages at once.

1

Attendees scan a QR code

No app to download. A browser opens on their phone and they choose their language.

2

Translation appears in real time

Live translated text with reconnect and missed-text backfill when a listener's connection drops.

3

Audio via their own phone

The phone's built-in text-to-speech reads the translation aloud — no earpieces needed.

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Voco supports 155+ languages. The guides above cover the most common diaspora church languages — but Voco works for all of them.

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