Central Kurdish Translator

About Central Kurdish

Central Kurdish, known as Sorani, is an Iranian language spoken by approximately 6 million people, primarily in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and western Iran. It emerged as a literary language in the early 19th century and has since become one of the two official languages of Iraq alongside Arabic.

Sorani is written using a modified Arabic script adapted to represent Kurdish phonology. Unlike its close relative Northern Kurdish (Kurmanji), Sorani has lost grammatical gender and developed a different case system. An interesting fact about Central Kurdish is that it serves as the primary language of instruction and government in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, making it one of the most institutionally supported Kurdish varieties.