Kurdish Language Services

Working together with our experienced and qualified Kurdish translators, interpreters, transcribers and subtitlers, we offer a wide range of Kurdish language services including:

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WHILE YOU’RE HERE... SOME QUITE INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE Kurdish LANGUAGE

The Kurdish language is related to Persian (or Farsi), the language spoken in Iran. Kurdish, like Persian, has also borrowed many words from the Arabic language. Until 1991, it was illegal to speak Kurdish in Turkey except at home. The skillful use of language is highly valued by Kurds. Cleverness and a command of poetry are considered important skills. Population estimates for the Kurds range from 5 million to 22 million. More Kurds live in Turkey than anywhere else. They are the second-largest ethnic group in Turkey, Iraq, and Syria. They are the third-largest group (after Azerbaijanis) in Iran. Kurds also live in Lebanon, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Germany, and other places across Europe, the United States, Canada, and Australia. Although they live among them, Kurds are ethnically unrelated to Turks, Arabs, and Iranians.

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Kurdish SAMPLE TEXT

There are three main varieties of Kurdish:
Kurmanji (spoken in Turkey, Syria, northern Iraq and northwestern Iran by about 15-20 million people).
Hemû mirov azad û di weqar û mafan de wekhev tên dinyayê. Ew xwedî hiş û şuûr in û divê li hember hev bi zihniyeteke bratiyê bilivin.
Sorani (spoken in Iraqi Kurdistan and the Kurdistan Province of Iran by about 6-7 million people).
واوی قووچاو
Pehlewani (spoken by about 3 million people in Kermanshah and Ilam provinces in north western Iran, and in the Khanaqin district in eastern Iraq).
کوردی خوارین;
The Kurdish language is written using the Latin script (mostly in Turkey and Syria).
The Perso-Arabic script is used mostly in Iraq and Iran.

AND LASTLY, A Kurdish tongue twister

Çume çemmî Çeqan, Çeqel çeltûkî eteqan.