Kurdish Localisation and Website Translation

Millions of people worldwide use the internet to find products and information every day. If your business trades worldwide, you’ll probably need your website to reflect that by having it translated into several languages, including Kurdish. We call this process website translation and localisation.

Our project managers can help you decide which website translation services and localisation solutions suit your needs best.

Kurdish website localisation and translation

Working from your source files and using our specially designed software, our qualified and experienced Kurdish website translators and Kurdish website localisation specialists will extract the content of your site, translate it in a style appropriate to the locale, then proofread and edit it. If you prefer, we can also work from MS Word files supplied by you, (or any number of other source file formats).

Our Kurdish translators will identify aspects of the source content that are suitable for website localisation and consider aspects including:

  • religion
  • mores
  • social and commercial habits
  • sense of humour
  • idiomatic expressions
  • metaphors
  • rules of conduct
  • ethical norms.

There may be some aspects of your Kurdish website translation and other material that are global and necessary for brand awareness. There may be product names or trademarks that need to remain consistent across all language versions.

The project manager working on your assignment will work with you to create a glossary of any terms that need to remain consistent across all versions of the site.

Kurdish translation and software localisation

Our in-house software translation and localisation process and tools means “local” users will be able to interact fully with your site.

  • Keywords and metadata tags can be localised for Kurdish consumers to achieve best possible optimisation opportunities
  • Layout can be adapted to accommodate longer text strings which may occur as a result of translation into Kurdish
  • All elements can be localised for Poland including text files, menus, dialogs, bitmaps and icons
  • We can work with all the major Windows software formats as well as text files and tagged formats such as XML and HTML

We can either return the Kurdish translated files to you for uploading and testing, or we can carry out a test of the localised version for you.

Brand name linguistic analysis

Because some brand names and slogans have unexpected cultural connotations, we also have an experienced team of Kurdish brand name analysts. They can ensure your logo, slogan or other translations will not be misinterpreted.

Please refer to our client feedback page to learn more about the unbeatable Kurdish language service we offer.

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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.

Courtesy of Everyculture

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.