Translate English to Sorani
Type English above and read it in Sorani, the Central Kurdish written in an Arabic-based alphabet and used across Iraqi Kurdistan and western Iran. Sorani is an official language of Iraq alongside Arabic. Messages to Erbil and Sulaymaniyah, community notices, and study text are the core uses; for the Latin-script Kurdish of Turkey and Syria, use the Kurmanji page instead.
Common English to Sorani translations
| English | Sorani | Pronunciation | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hello | سڵاو | slaw | ||
| Thank you | سوپاس | soo-PAHS | ||
| Yes | بەڵێ | beh-LEH | ||
| No | نەخێر | neh-KHAIR | ||
| How are you? | چۆنی؟ | choh-NEE |
Tips for English to Sorani translation
Sorani's alphabet does something Arabic itself does not: it writes the vowels as full letters. That makes Sorani text far easier to sound out than Arabic or Persian once the letter shapes are familiar, and it is why learners progress faster than the script suggests.
Sorani and Kurmanji are the two big Kurdish standards, and they differ enough in grammar and script that each needs its own translator. Sending Sorani text to a Kurmanji reader in Diyarbakir works about as well as sending Portuguese to Madrid: partially.
About the Sorani language
Sorani serves as the language of government, media, and education in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, centered on Erbil and Sulaymaniyah, and is spoken across the border in Iranian Kurdistan. Kurdish communities in Nashville, London, and Germany keep both standards alive abroad, with Sorani strongest among families from Iraq and Iran.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Free, no account, no word-per-day cap for normal use.
Yes, every result has audio playback where a voice is available, and the speaker buttons in the table above work the same way.
No. Text is processed in real time and discarded; nothing is logged to a profile.
Translate up to 100 words per pass; split longer texts into paragraphs.
Two Kurdish standards: Sorani uses an Arabic-based script and is spoken in Iraq and Iran; Kurmanji uses Latin letters and dominates in Turkey and Syria. Grammar differs too, so each has its own page here.
Yes, the Arabic-based Sorani script runs right to left, and the output box handles the direction automatically.
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