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source language

noun

  1. the language in which a text appears that is to be translated into another language. Compare target language ( def 1 ).
  2. a language, usually the learner's native language, that is a source of interference in learning another language. Compare target language ( def 2 ).


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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of source language1

First recorded in 1955–60
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Example Sentences

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This uniformity strongly suggests this word was found in the languages' early Germanic parent – that is, the source language from which all these Germanic languages descended.

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“The goal of localization is for users in the target language to have the same experience as users in the source language,” says Kracker.

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Davis says people tend to study the “paleographic, forensic, and artistic evidence” to find a country of origin, and with that, a source language, but she adds that computational analysis is also used.

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"The main challenges are when there is less explicit information in the source language than what is needed for generating proper target language."

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And so Lewis followed some stringent, self-imposed rules in composing this long poem, altering nothing about her source language except its punctuation.

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