Courts often need to employ _chains_ of interpreters: for example, one to translate from English to Spanish, one to translate from Spanish to one Mayan language

Courts often need to employ _chains_ of interpreters: for example, one to translate from English to Spanish, one to translate from Spanish to one Mayan language, and one to translate from that Mayan language to a different, more obscure Mayan language spoken by a monolingual defendant.[1] Chinese and Swahili would give them no trouble at all. 1: Real example from my friend who represented such a person in an immigration hearing.