NAATI Certification Report 30 June 2020

Contents Overview of Certification ...... 3 Certified Conference Interpreter ...... 4 Certified Interpreter ...... 5 Certified Provisional Interpreter ...... 6 Recognised Practising Interpreter ...... 8 Certified Advanced Translator ...... 10 Certified Translator ...... 11 Recognised Practising Translator ...... 12 Chinese and Mandarin Credentials ...... 14 Deaf Interpreting Credentials ...... 14

2 NAATI Certification Report June 2020 Overview of Certification • Currently there are 20,683 credentials across 179 languages awarded under the certification system. These are held by a total of 15,621 practitioners.

Current Credentials

Certified Advanced Translator 80

Certified Conference Interpreter 77

Certified Interpreter 2583

Certified Provisional Deaf Interpreter 20

Certified Provisional Interpreter 6032

Certified Translator 10852

Recognised Practising Deaf Interpreter 148

Recognised Practising Interpreter 558

Recognised Practising Translator 333

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Figure 1 Breakdown of credentials awarded

• Credentials have been awarded in all Australian States and Territories, with 1019 credentials held by residents of countries other than Australia.

Credential Distribution 8000 7462

7000 6447

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1937 2000 1282 1017 1019 1000 779 535 205 0 ACT NSW NT QLD SA TAS VIC WA OS

Figure 2 Credentials awarded by location 3 NAATI Certification Report June 2020 Certified Conference Interpreter Certified Conference Interpreter

Auslan

Finnish

French

German

Indonesian

Italian

Japanese

CCI into English CCI into LOTE Korean

Malay

Mandarin

Min Nan Chinese

Russian

Spanish

Vietnamese

0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20

Figure 3 CCI credentials 4 NAATI Certification Report June 2020 Certified Interpreter Certified Interpreter

Albanian Amharic Arabic Auslan Bangla Bosnian Bulgarian Cantonese Croatian Czech Dari Djambarrpuyngu Filipino Finnish French German Greek Hindi Hungarian Indonesian Italian Japanese Khmer Korean Lao Macedonian Malay Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Romanian Russian Samoan Serbian Sinhalese Slovak Somali Spanish Tamil Thai Turkish Urdu Vietnamese

0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350

Figure 4 CI credentials 5 NAATI Certification Report June 2020 Certified Provisional Interpreter Certified Provisional Interpreter (A - L)

Albanian Alyawarr Amharic Anindilyakwa Anmatyerr Arabic Assyrian Neo-Aramaic Auslan Bangla Bosnian Bulgarian Burarra Burmese Cantonese Croatian Czech Dari Dhuwaya Dinka Djambarrpuyngu Dutch Eastern Arrernte Filipino Finnish Fitzroy Valley Kriol French German Greek Gumatj Gupapuyngu Gurindji Kriol Hakha Chin Hakka Chinese Hazaragi Hindi Hungarian Indonesian Italian Japanese Jaru Kalaw Kawaw Ya Khmer Kija Kriol Kimberley Kriol Korean Kriol Kukatja Kunwinjku Kurmanji Kurdish Lao Luritja 0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400 450

6 NAATI Certification Report June 2020 Certified Provisional Interpreter (M - Z)

Macedonian Malay Maltese Martu Wangka Miriwung Modern Tiwi Murrinh-Patha Nepali Ngaanyatjarra Nuer Nyangumarta Oromo Pashto Persian Pintupi-Luritja Pitjantjatjara Polish Portuguese Punjabi Rohingya Romanian Roper River Kriol Russian Samoan Serbian S'gaw Karen Sinhalese Somali Sorani Kurdish Spanish Swahili Tamil Tedim Chin Thai Tigrinya Tongan Traditional Tiwi Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese Walmajarri Wangkatha Warlpiri Warumungu Western Arrarnta Wik-Mungkan Yankunytjatjara Yindjibarndi Yumplatok

0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350

Figure 5 CPI credentials 7 NAATI Certification Report June 2020 Recognised Practising Interpreter Recognised Practising Interpreter (A - Z)

Aceh Acholi Afar American Sign Language Amharic Armenian Assyrian Neo-Aramaic Bangla Bielorussian Bosnian Burmese Chaldean Neo-Aramaic Chin, Müün (Mindat) Chiu-Chownese Cook Islands Maori Croatian Dari Dinka Djambarrpuyngu Eastern Arrernte Estonian Falam Chin Fiji Hindi Finnish Fulfulde Fuzhou Gujarati Hakha Chin Hakka Chinese Hassaniyya Hazaragi Hebrew Hindi Hindustani Hmong Hokkien Ibo Italian Kakwa Kalaw Kawaw Ya Kayah Khmer Kinyarwanda Kirundi Krio Kriol Kurmanji Kurdish Latvian Lingala Lithuanian

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70

8 NAATI Certification Report June 2020 Recognised Practising Interpreter (M - Z)

Macedonian Malay Maltese Marathi Melanesian Pidgin English Mende Meriam Mir Mizo Chin Mongolian Montenegrin Nepali NZ Sign Language Nigerian Pidgin North Azerbaijani Oromo Pashto Persian Pitjantjatjara Portuguese Pukapukan Pulaar Punjabi Pwo Eastern Karen Rohingya Romanian Samoan Serbian S'gaw Karen Shanghainese Slovak Slovene Somali Sorani Kurdish South Azerbaijani Southern Kurdish Spanish Swahili Syriac Taiwanese Tamil Tedim Chin Telugu Teochew Tetum Thai Tibetan Tigré Tigrinya Tjupan Tongan Turkmen Ukrainian Urdu Uzbek Vietnamese Warlpiri Zo (alt name Zomi) Zotung Chin 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35

Figure 6 RPI credentials

9 NAATI Certification Report June 2020 Certified Advanced Translator Certified Advanced Translator

Afrikaans

Arabic

Chinese

French

German

Greek

Italian CAT into English CAT into LOTE Japanese

Korean

Portuguese

Russian

Spanish

Swedish

0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16

Figure 7 CAT credentials

10 NAATI Certification Report June 2020 Certified Translator Certified Translator

Albanian Amharic Arabic Armenian Bangla Bosnian Bulgarian Burmese Croatian Czech Danish Dari Dutch Estonian Filipino Finnish French German Greek Hindi Hungarian Indonesian Italian Japanese Khmer CT into English Korean CT into LOTE Lao Macedonian Malay Maltese Nepali Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Romanian Russian Samoan Serbian Sinhalese Slovak Somali Spanish Tamil Thai Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese

0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350 400

Figure 8 CT credentials 11 NAATI Certification Report June 2020 Recognised Practising Translator Recognised Practising Translator (A - L)

Afar

Afrikaans

Amharic

Armenian

Assyrian Neo-Aramaic

Bielorussian

Bosnian

Burmese

Chiu-Chownese

Cook Islands Maori

Croatian

Czech

Danish

Dari

Djambarrpuyngu

Dutch

Estonian RPT into English RPT into LOTE Fiji Hindi

Finnish

Gujarati

Gupapuyngu

Hazaragi

Hebrew

Hmong

Hokkien

Hungarian

Icelandic

Kalaw Kawaw Ya

Khmer

Kurmanji Kurdish

Latin

Latvian

Lithuanian

0 5 10 15 20 25

12 NAATI Certification Report June 2020 Recognised Practising Translator (M - Z)

Marathi

Melanesian Pidgin English

Mongolian

Montenegrin

Nepali

North Azerbaijani

Norwegian

Oromo

Pashto

Polish

Pukapukan

Punjabi

Romanian

Samoan

Serbian

S'gaw Karen

Shanghainese

Slovak RPT into English Slovene RPT into LOTE Somali

Sorani Kurdish

South Azerbaijani

Swahili

Swedish

Tamil

Teochew

Tetum

Tibetan

Tigrinya

Tongan

Traditional Tiwi

Ukrainian

Uzbek

Walmajarri

Warlpiri

Yumplatok

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Figure 9 RPT credentials 13 NAATI Certification Report June 2020 Chinese and Mandarin Credentials Chinese / Mandarin Certifications

CT English into Chinese 6244

CT Chinese into English 949

CPI Mandarin 2445

CI Mandarin 851

0 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 7000

Figure 10 Chinese / Mandarin credentials Deaf Interpreting Credentials Deaf Interpreting Credentials

Certified Provisional Deaf Interpreter 20

Adapted Sign Language and Auslan 32

Bhutanese Sign Language and Auslan 1

Non-Conventional Sign Language and Auslan 33

Other Conventional Sign Language and Auslan 27

Written English and Auslan 28

Written English and Non-Conventional Sign Language 27

0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35

Figure 11 Deaf Interpreting credentials

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