Native Name: Sorani (Kurdish: سۆرانی )
Number of Speakers: 6 million
Official language of: Iran, Iraq
Script used: Persian Alphabet (modified)
Sample of Kurdish Sorani
ئیسلام پهیك/كوردیۆ
Kurdish Sorani Translation, Typesetting, Websites, Voice-Overs and Subtitles
Adelphi Translations Ltd. work translating Kurdish Sorani to English and English to Kurdish Sorani. We also produce voice recordings and subtitles for video in Kurdish Sorani as well as translation and localization of web sites into Albanian.
Samples of Kurdish Sorani Adelphi has translated and typeset:
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Kurdish-Sorani typesetting for Amnesty-International
Kurdish Sorani translation and typesetting for the Forum Federation Canada
Sorani is one of the two main dialects of Kurdish, the other being Kurmanji. Kurdish Sorani is written with a modified Persian alphabet. This is in contrast to Kurmanji which is spoken mainly in Turkey and is usually written in the Latin alphabet.
Sorani was named by linguists after the former principality of Soran. Objections have been raised to the name on the grounds that the name of one dialect, Sorani, spoken in the region Soran should not be extended to cover a group of dialect
