Languages
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
Pashto is distinct from Dari, even though both are official languages of Afghanistan and o…
Kurdish (Sorani)
کوردی سۆرانی
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
Urdu is the shared language of Pakistani Christian communities in Britain — a small, long-…
Farsi
فارسی
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
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
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…
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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.
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