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‘COMPUTER’ NOT LOCALIZED!
TRANSLATING INDIAN LANGUAGES FOR GLOBALIZATION
A CASE STUDY OF MALAYALAM
V. Geetha Kumary, Ph.D.
INTRODUCTION
Globalization is a process of designing or redesigning a product so that it can be localized with minimal changes.
This article mainly discusses some of the issues in localizing the computer terminologies. The language of discussion is Malayalam. Localization of computer terminology is really a welcoming attempt because through localization every Indian can exploit the power of computers and connect to the world, as dreamt by webduniya.com. But it is not an easy task because computer, which is of foreign origin, the terms are coined either from English or from the foreign concepts. The equivalent terms in this list are coined as per the Microsoft guideline suggestions and according to the description given for each term in the term list provided.
1. Word to word translation
For some of the terms given, the content description and the English terms given were of much similarity and more over the idea was also familiar in the target language, in such cases mere word to word translation of the English terms is adopted to get the equivalent.
2. Transliteration
There are many instances where transliteration is used to localize the term. Some of the English terms which are commonly accepted in the Malayalam language are only transliterated. Even the term computer is only transliterated. And we should yet find an apt equivalent for this in Malayalam language.
3. Abbreviation
Malayalam language accepts the English abbreviation and only transliterates the abbreviated form. Therefore the abbreviated terms given were only transliterated even though the expanded forms of the same were translated into Malayalam.
4. Content translation
The concept of Computer is foreign and there fore most of the terminology related to this is new in Indian context. In such a situation one cannot adopt word-to-word translation because of the non availability of the term in the target language. Here one should coin a new term in accordance with the description given for that particular term.
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