Professional Marquesan Translation Services

The territorial government issues its engineering specifications in French, drafted for contractors bidding out of Papeʻete. Crews paving the road above the valleys and repairing the quay at Tahaʻuku Bay build to documents naming tolerances in millimetres. Our ʻEo ʻEnana linguists translate those clauses for the municipal staff supervising the job, leaving the dimensions and the metric symbols untouched.

Costing a solar array for ʻUa Pou means pricing the shipping from Tahiti as well as the panels. Ahead of the council vote, our terminologists put the procurement notice and its technical annexes into Marquesan, matching the power systems and grids vocabulary from the previous vendor’s submission. Tariff tables remain in French for the audit office.

The Natitua cable comes ashore at Taiohaʻe, its terminal building giving the northern islands a fibre link to Tahiti. The telecoms operator sends service conditions and outage advisories to subscribers who conduct their private business in Marquesan. Our office issues the subscriber letter together with the municipal correspondence about it. The engineering annex stays in French.

Because the intake at Hakahau serves families who speak Marquesan at home, the commune posts its maintenance bulletins in Marquesan and French. Our editors write the boil-water phrasing and the annual quality report, along with the handbooks left with the caretaker between visits from a mainland technician. Tahitian versions of that bulletin, ordered by the territory for its Papeʻete filing, come from our Tahitian Translation Services.

Across the valleys of Hiva ʻOa, growers gather noni fruit for the processors in Tahiti, whose purchase agreements fix ripeness grades and delivery windows. The ʻEo ʻEnata pair translates those agreements, alongside the collection timetable posted at the jetty by the cooperative. Weight figures and lot numbers stay in the French original.

To ship copra to the oil mill in Papeʻete, a producer lodges weight tickets and moisture figures under the public purchase scheme. Our typesetters set out those forms in parallel columns, French for the buyer and Marquesan for the cutter filling the sacks. One food production and processing glossary governs the two columns, from the drying rack to the mill gate.

Guarding an archipelago still free of the little fire ant, the territorial agriculture service inspects plant matter and hives in transit between islands. Our linguists put its phytosanitary and biosecurity notices and transfer permits into Marquesan for the orchardists of ʻUa Huka. Honey from those hives ships south under the identical controls.

There is no resident veterinary officer on the smaller islands. Stock declarations and treatment records therefore accompany the animals to Taiohaʻe, drawn up by a stockman who thinks in Marquesan and countersigned by an inspector trained in French. Atoll producers submit a parallel dossier under the Tuamotu transfer rules, which our Tuamotuan Translation Services prepare.

The Communauté de communes des îles Marquises, an intercommunal body joining the member municipalities, publishes tenders for services outside the budget of one island. Bid packs specifying waste collection or harbour dredging appear in French. Our reviewers produce the Marquesan summary for debate in council, plus the clarification letters returned by the local firms. One wording from the procurement and tenders list governs the whole round.

Rarely does an island enterprise employ a bilingual clerk. A bid misstating a warranty period fails on formality, if not on the price. Clause after clause, our checkers set the Marquesan draft against the French original and flag transposed figures. A marked-up draft returns to the firm inside the query period.

It is the cooperative that organises most trade in the valleys. An assembly of members debates the statutes and annual accounts in Marquesan, though the administration in Papeʻete files them in French. Our small business and cooperatives glossary answers to the company law of the territory. Cook Islands societies on a comparable footing take their statutes from our Rarotongan Translation Services.

While ordering stock for the dry season, a storekeeper signs supply arrangements with the trading houses of Papeʻete, whose credit terms have governed island retail for a century. Those arrangements name interest and delivery cycles. For the shop and for the relatives behind the counter, we produce the Marquesan text, with the schedule of charges set out in a table.

It has become routine for a booking platform to publish machine-translated French, losing the valley names to autocorrect. Family pensions house most arrivals to the archipelago, their listings and rate cards edited by the owner between guests. Our proofreaders restore the island spelling of a bay or a ridge across the accommodation services listing, in line with the commune’s own usage.

What a guide explains on the Hanavave trail is the terrain itself, told ravine by ravine. Our writers prepare the instruction sheets and the liability waiver signed at the stable by the rider. Horseback and boat excursions bill in Pacific francs, the tariff printed in Marquesan next to the French.

A consultant in town drafts the descriptive write-up for a lodge in French. Marquesan and English versions come from our copywriters, sized for a phone screen in Sydney or Brisbane. Seasonal promotion into Australia and Aotearoa sells on the Marquesan toponyms, with our destination marketing terminology applied to those source markets.

Three and a half hours of flying separate Papeʻete from Nuku a Taha. Fare conditions and baggage limits posted at the airstrip counter appear in French, though the passengers waiting under the awning speak Marquesan to one another. For those making the crossing, we prepare the Marquesan panel. Operators on Rapa Nui order their own counter wording from our Rapa Nui Translation Services.

Only after the inspector signs does a pallet leave the Taiohaʻe docks. Chilled fish and fruit for the morning departure ride under temperature logs kept by the shipper. Our staff lay out those log sheets with the Marquesan wording for the loaders and the French for the receiving warehouse.

Dangerous-goods declarations, the smallest shipper must still lodge in full. Fuel drums and gas bottles bound for the outer valleys ship under rules set by the maritime authority. In-house translators produce the label text and the stowage instructions for crews loading at night, to the dangerous goods standard adopted by the operator.

Buyers in Los Angeles, CA are asking for lot-level traceability with noni consignments. Grower declarations and batch records go out in Marquesan and French, with the codes left in Latin script for the scanner. A processor in Tokyo receives the whole consignment history.

Customs brokers in Papeʻete lodge the export dossier on behalf of an island exporter, a service billed by the file. Annexes requested by those brokers go out from our office, together with the grower’s correspondence after a consignment stays overnight in the cold store. Catches transhipped through American Sāmoa need catch documentation in English, prepared by our Samoan Translation Services.

Public projects on the islands hire locally under their award conditions. Employment contracts drawn up in Papeʻete give job titles from a metropolitan grading scheme, unfamiliar to a hand taken on at the harbour. Grade by grade, our terminologists put those titles and the pay scale into Marquesan. The labour inspectorate sees only the French original, kept by the supervisor.

Meanwhile, machinery comes north with manuals printed in French or in English. Marquesan handling notes for the container door come from our technical pair, with the maker’s part numbers unchanged. Lifting charts and fuel warnings get the closest attention, since a valley gang rigs its own gear until the specialist flies out from town.

Pinned by the door of the site hut, the muster notice names the person calling the roll and the assembly point up the slope from the tide line. Our safety writers draw it up alongside the incident form completed by hand at the end of the day. The form asks for the hour of the call and the first responder on duty.

Twice a year an assessor flies out to sign off apprentice logbooks. Those books log hours against tasks named in French, filled in by a Marquesan-speaking trainee. We add the facing pages in ʻEo ʻEnana for the professional training record. Contractors hiring across a New Zealand build season order the induction pack in te reo from our Māori Translation Services.

Out in the valleys, listeners take their bulletins from the radio. Extension advisories for growers and cyclone warnings go out from Taiohaʻe in Marquesan, recorded by our voice talent from scripts prepared by our team. The French version gets cut in one studio booking.

Utilities and airlines publish audio as well as printed sheets. Our studio records the outage messages and the flight-delay announcements, timed to the slot allowed by a village transmitter. Shorter cuts play through the loudspeaker at the freight shed, in earshot of the crowd on arrival mornings.

Producers from Papeʻete and the wider Pacific commission studio capacity and interpreting staff through our voice recording services. Guided-tour audio and museum handsets get one recording session, then an edit to the duration set by the tour centre. Subtitling for community film falls to audio-visual adaptation.

Casting begins from the island group named on the order sheet. Our ʻEo ʻEnana and ʻEo ʻEnata localisation services set out the northern and southern differences at length. We book the voice to match, then log the choice with the script.

In administration and trade, a mayor and a storekeeper sign their documents in Marquesan. Our team writes procurement and tenders dossiers for the intercommunal body, along with statutes for the valley societies under small business and cooperatives. Credit lines from the Papeʻete traders answer to contracts and agreements.

Farm and sea production forms the second cluster. Phytosanitary and biosecurity protocols govern plant matter in transit between islands, while coastal and community-based fisheries files track inshore catches along the two chains.

On the technical side, the ʻEo ʻEnana and ʻEo ʻEnata pair handles power systems and grids specifications for the island system and freight and dangerous goods annexes for the morning flight. Statutory citations in these files point to the instrument in force at the date of issue, since a repealed title misstates the obligation signed by a grower or a mayor.

Hospitality and training close the list. Accommodation services listings serve the pensions of the two island groups, with a guiding operator taking its destination marketing text from that glossary. An apprentice logbook shows the professional training entries in ʻEo ʻEnata beside the French.