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Nativization of Biblical Names in Manipuri

Manoranjan Oinam
M.A. in Linguistics, Ph.D. Research Scholar

Abstract

The translators must leave no stone unturned in order to get across the thoughts and ideas to the TL from the SL in the process of translation. Therefore, every word, phrase, and sentence must not be left untranslated. In this paper I would like to deal not only words, phrase, and sentence but the proper nouns, especially the biblical names. In dealing with the proper nouns, a translator cannot just leave them by transliterating, otherwise it would be so unnatural and foreign to the TL audience. Nativization of those proper nouns is extremely important. So, in this paper I would like to deal with the process of nativization of biblical names by analysing and comparing the phonological and the syllabic patterns of the SL and TL.

Keywords: Manipuri, translation, transliteration, nativization, phonological pattern, syllabic pattern.

Introduction

The Bible in its original untranslated form is a collection of ancient writings; the New Testament in Greek, the Old Testament in Hebrew and Aramaic, spanning many cultures and more than a thousand years. The 66 books into which the Bible is divided represent "a greater variety of literary styles, e.g., historical narrative, prophecy, poetry, instructions and exhortation etc. than any other piece of literature in the history of mankind" (Snell-Hornby, et al., 1998; 275). This variety of text types makes Bible translation a hard task for the translator, especially when translating into language like Manipuri which does not have a long written literary tradition. However, the Bible is the most translated book in the world.

Manipuri is a Tibeto-Burman language. It is the predominant language and lingua franca in the south-eastern Himalayan state of Manipur, in north-eastern India. It is the official language in government offices in the state. Although the state of Manipur is small, the total population of Manipuri speaking people all over the world is 1, 500,000 (one million five hundred thousand/15 lakhs). Even though Manipuri native speakers mostly reside in the state of Manipur, there are native speakers in the neighbouring north-eastern states of India, notably in Assam and Tripura. It is also spoken in some parts of Bangladesh and Myanmar.

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Manoranjan Oinam
M.A. in Linguistics, Ph.D. Research Scholar
Department of Linguistics
Manipur University

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Canchipur
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Manipur 795003
India
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