Kurmanji Kurdish translator

"Kurdish" is not a single language but a cluster of variants. Kurmanji (Northern Kurdish) is the largest of them and is written in the Latin Hawar script, mainly in Turkey, Syria and the diaspora. Sorani Kurdish uses an Arabic-Persian script and is only partly mutually intelligible with Kurmanji. When you request a Kurdish translation, we first establish which variant your document calls for.

By default we deliver Kurmanji in the Latin Hawar script, the norm for Turkey, Syria and the Western European diaspora. If your document comes from the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, it may be the Badini variant in Arabic script. We determine the script from the origin of your source document and confirm the choice in the quote.

The UK has no sworn-translator institute, so there is no "sworn translator" as a legal office here. For official acceptance we provide certified translation: a signed and dated statement of accuracy from the translator or the agency, with our contact details. Where a body asks for more, this can be escalated to notarisation by a solicitor or notary public, or to an apostille or legalisation through the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO). We confirm in the quote which level your receiving authority requires.

Common documents are personal statements for Home Office and asylum cases, birth and marriage certificates, diplomas and transcripts, register extracts, medical documents and business correspondence. UK-specific cases we handle often are UKVI immigration documents, university admissions assessed by UK ENIC and HMCTS court documents. We confirm the approach, the script and any certification per document in the quote.

On working days you receive a quote within 1 hour. The lead time for the translation itself depends on document type, volume, variant, script and any required certification, and is confirmed in the quote. For tight deadlines we confirm a workable rush schedule up front rather than promising a fixed turnaround.

A Kurmanji Kurdish translation agency takes the coordination off your hands. We establish whether your document is Kurmanji and not Sorani, choose the right script, pair you with a translator who handles the variant, arrange certification, notarisation or legalisation where an authority requires it, and have the work checked. You keep one point of contact for variant, script, terminology, scheduling and delivery, all under a single quote. A skilled freelance translator does excellent work too; the difference an agency adds is bringing those moving parts together so you are not managing them separately.