Kurdish Subtitles & Captions

Knockhundred offers a high-quality Kurdish subtitling service to a variety of clients across a wide range of business sectors. In fact, we offer professional subtitling services in over 190 languages, including Kurdish, for cinema, TV, online material, DVD, video, video games, computer games and corporate CD-ROMS.

We can provide captions and Kurdish captioning services (including closed captions) for those people who are deaf or hard of hearing. These captions will usually contain descriptions of non-dialogue audio (such as laughter or a door slamming).

We also of course provide English subtitling services to a huge range of clients across the globe. Please refer to our languages page to see which languages we can handle.

The art of Kurdish subtitling

Using subtitling software, we can provide subtitles in virtually any language including Kurdish, and produce the end result in most industry-standard formats such as plain text, Word, HTML, Final Cut Pro XML, Spruce STL or Subrip (srt).

If you don't see the format you need, just ask, as we may still be able to help. The Kurdish subtitlers will identify exact positions where each subtitle should appear and disappear. These markers are usually identified by precise time codes/frames dependent on the service you require.

The process of Kurdish captioning

The process of captioning is much the same as for producing Kurdish subtitles. The main difference is that the resulting Kurdish captions will often contain descriptions of sound as well as a direct transcription of the speech.

Kurdish transcription and translation for film and tv

We regularly translate film and documentary clips providing a finished transcription with time codes ready for Kurdish subtitles to be created. We are more than happy to produce finished srt subtitle files if you'd prefer.

One-step media translation from video for Kurdish subtitles

If your source video is in one language, for example English, and you require the subtitles to be in another, for example Kurdish, our Kurdish linguists will provide a direct translation into the relevant language and produce time-coded subtitles in a suitable format.

Kurdish video SEO

Do you have an existing video in Kurdish, or are you having one produced?  If you want consumers to find your video, please remember search engines can’t watch a video or listen to audio, but they do “understand” (and index) text.  This is why it is important to upload an aligned, accurate Kurdish transcript to support your video content or to provide Kurdish subtitles or captions.  This is how search engines will “hear” your video.

Rates
  • Kurdish subtitling rates start from £9.99 + VAT per source video minute
  • Kurdish same language transcription rates start from £3.99 per source audio/video minute
  • Kurdish language direct translation from audio/video rates start from £6.99 per source audio/video minute
  • Please note these rates are a broad indication only. Minimum charges apply, and rates will vary depending on audio quality, number of speakers, subject matter, volume, etc.

Please note: VAT is chargeable for our UK clients. We are able to provide quotations in GB pounds, US Dollars or Euros.

Please refer to our Client Feedback page to learn more about the unbeatable Kurdish transcription service we offer.

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.