Kurdish Kurmanji (Northern Kurdish) interpreting and translation

Kurmanji interpreting services for every setting

We provide face-to-face Kurmanji interpreting for hospital appointments, solicitors' meetings, court hearings and tribunals, home visits and school meetings, alongside telephone interpreting (OPI) available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and video remote interpreting (VRI) through the SILA Linguists® app or the video platform you already use.

For conferences, community consultations and training days we provide consecutive and simultaneous Kurmanji interpreters, including remote simultaneous interpreting (RSI). Where a client from Duhok uses Badini forms, or a Yazidi client from Sinjar prefers particular religious and cultural terms, we match an interpreter who knows that background, and we can arrange a female or male Kurmanji interpreter when the subject is sensitive.

Kurmanji translation and certified translation

SILA Linguists® translates Kurmanji in both directions: witness statements, personal letters, medical histories, school records, social media messages used as evidence, patient information leaflets, public health campaigns and community guidance. Kurmanji written in Türkiye and Syria uses the Latin Hawar alphabet, while texts from Iraq and Iran may use a Kurdish Arabic-based script, so our translators work in whichever script your document uses and keep names spelled consistently across a file.

Our certified Kurmanji translation includes a signed statement of accuracy, accepted by courts, the Home Office, universities, employers and other UK authorities. When a case also involves Turkish or Arabic civil documents, we arrange certified translation of those in the same project, so one team handles the whole bundle.

Kurmanji transcription and language analysis

We transcribe Kurmanji audio and video recordings, such as police interviews, research interviews, focus groups and recorded evidence, and deliver time-stamped transcripts with an English translation alongside. Where speakers switch between Kurmanji, Turkish and Arabic, our transcribers mark each language clearly so the record remains reliable.

For asylum and immigration cases, SILA Linguists® also offers language analysis for the determination of origin (LADO) for Kurmanji, carried out by specialist linguists and analysts.

Settings for our linguists in Kurmanji

Our vetted, trained and qualified Kurmanji interpreters and translators can support immigration and asylum services, courts, solicitors and barristers, police and probation, the NHS and private clinics, mental health teams, local authorities and social services, schools and universities, charities working with refugees, and businesses trading with Kurdish-speaking regions. Whatever the setting, you deal with one SILA Linguists® project team, bound by confidentiality agreements and UK GDPR, from booking to delivery.