Kurdish (Kurmanji, Palewani, Sorani) translation services - Geo Language Services - Translation Services, Guildford, London, Edinburgh

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Classification

Indo-European > Iranian

Script

Perso-Arabic alphabet in Iran and Iraq, Latin alphabet in Turkey and Syria, Cyrillic alphabet in Armenia

Text direction

Right-to-left or left-to-right

Speakers

Other names

Kurdi

Official language

Also spoken

Armenia, Germany, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Syrian Arab Republic, Turkey

Interesting Fact

The Kurdish anthem is called "Ey Requib", meaning "Hey, Enemy!"

Profile

Kurdish is an Indo-Iranian language spoken by Kurds across several countries such as Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria. Several million Kurds also speak a language called Zaza-Gorani but this is a different language from Kurdish.

There are three dialect groups within the Kurdish language, spoken by about 20 million Kurds: Kurmanji (Northern Kurdish), Sorani (Central Kurdish) and Pehlewani (Southern Kurdish).

The language is written with two different scripts depending on locale. For example, in Turkey and Syria, Kurdish is written with a Latin script; but in Iraq and Iran, with Perso-Arabic script.

Most Kurdish vocabulary is of Iranian origin with loanwords from Persian, Arabic and some of Turkic origin.

Services offered for this language

Translation / Transcreation / Subtitling / Localization / Adaptation / Copywriting / Authoring / Proofreading / Revision / Editing / Translation quality assurance / Terminology / Linguistic validation / Glossary creation / Dubbing / Voice-overs / Transcription / Typesetting / Simultaneous interpreting / Consecutive interpreting / Conference interpreting / Telephone interpreting / Public service interpreting / Interpreting equipment hire / Foreign language consulting