Privacy Policy
en español
A glossary and translation of commonly used debt collection terms is available in multiple languages on the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs website www.nyc.gov/dca. We offer English and Spanish speaking representatives and CanTalk, www.cantalk.com, a live language interpretation service that, as of September 30, 2020, can interpret live phone calls in the languages below. We do not offer translation of our letters, written communications or website except for our privacy policy that is offered in English and Spanish.
AFRICAN LANGUAGES
Afar |
Creole-Cape Verdean |
Kiswahili |
Pidgin |
Afrikaans |
Creole-West African |
Krahn |
Runyakitara |
Akan |
Dinka |
Krio |
Saho |
Amharic |
Dyula |
Kunama |
Shona |
Anuak |
Ewe |
Lingala |
Somali |
Anyin |
Fante |
Luganda |
Susu |
Asante |
Fulani |
Luhya |
Swahili |
Azari |
Ga |
Maay Maay |
Tigre |
Bambara |
Hausa |
Malagasy |
Tigrinya/ Eritrean |
Baoule |
Igbo |
Mandingo |
Tshiluba |
Berber |
Kasem |
Mandinka |
Twi |
Bilen |
Kikongo |
Nuer |
Wolof |
Borana |
Kinyamulenge |
Nupe |
Yoruba |
Chichewa |
Kinyarwanda |
Nyanja |
Zulu |
Creole |
Kirundi |
Oromo |
Pidgin |
Creole-Haitian |
Kissi |
Papiamentu |
Runyakitara |
EUROPEAN LANGUAGES
WESTERN
Catalan |
French-Canadian |
Low German |
Portuguese-Brazilian |
Danish |
French-France |
Luxembourghish |
Portuguese-Portugal |
Dutch |
French-African |
Norwegian |
Spanish |
English |
German |
Swedish |
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Flemish |
Greek |
Portuguese |
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Finnish |
Icelandic |
Portuguese-African |
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French |
Italian |
Portuguese-Azores |
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EASTERN
Albanian |
Georgian |
Montenegrin |
Slovakian |
Armenian |
Hungarian |
Neapolitan |
Slovenian |
Belorusian |
Kyrgyz |
Ossetian |
Ukrainian |
Bosnian |
Latvian |
Polish |
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Bulgarian |
Lithuanian |
Romanian |
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Croatian |
Macedonian |
Russian |
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Czech |
Mixtec |
Serbian |
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Estonian |
Moldavian |
Serbo-Croatian |
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ASIAN LANGUAGES
EAST ASIAN & PACIFIC
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Bikol |
Hokkien |
Korean |
Tajik |
Burmese |
Ilocano |
Lao |
Teochow |
Burmese-Rohingya |
Indonesian |
Malay |
Thai |
Cantonese |
Indonesian-Bahasa |
Maltese |
Tongan |
Cebuano |
Javanese |
Mandarin |
Toisan/Taishan |
Chin-Hakha |
Sundanese |
Mien |
Uyghur |
Chin-Falam |
Japanese |
Mongolian |
Uzbek |
Chin-Tedim |
Kapampangan |
Shanghainese |
Vietnamese |
Foochow |
Karen |
Samoan |
Visayan |
Fukianese |
Karen-Sgaw |
Tagalog |
Waray |
Fuzhounese |
Kazakh |
Taishanese |
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EAST INDIAN
Bengali |
Malayalam |
Sinhala |
Tibetan |
Gujarati |
Marathi |
Sylheti |
Urdu |
Hindi |
Nepali |
Tamil |
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Hindko |
Punjabi |
Telugu |
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MIDDLE EAST
Arabic |
Arabic-Iraqi |
Chaldean |
Kurmanji-Behdini |
Arabic-Moroccan |
Arabic-Syrian |
Dari |
Kurdish-Sorani |
Arabic-Sudanese |
Arabic-Jordanian |
Farsi/ Persian |
Pashto/ Afghan |
Arabic-Lebanese |
Aramaic |
Hebrew |
Salish |
Arabic-Egyptian |
Assyrian |
Kurdish |
Turkish |
Arabic-Gulfland |
Azeri-Azarbaijani |
Kurdish-Kurmanji |
Yazidi |
INDIGENOUS
CANADIAN
Algonquian |
Cree-Plains |
Inuinnaqtun |
Ojibway |
Blackfoot |
Cree-Swampy |
Inuktitut |
Oji-Cree |
Chipewyan |
Cree-Woodlands |
Michif |
Saulteaux |
Cree |
Dakota |
Micmac |
Slavey |
Cree-James Bay |
Dene |
Mohawk |
South Slavey |
Cree-Moose |
Dogrib |
North Slavey |
Tsilhqotin |