Alloglottography

Quick meaning: Alloglottography is a noun meaning A direct translation of an utterance from one language to another such that the original utterance can be unambiguously and correctly recovered.

Meaning

A direct translation of an utterance from one language to another such that the original utterance can be unambiguously and correctly recovered.

Example Sentences

For Iranian-speaking scribes, alloglottography would be rather preposterous.

Some texts extend alloglottography over entire clauses or even a whole text.

With a narrow definition of alloglottography, one that sees language learning via speech as inherent to scribal education and scribal life, I could definitely agree.

Such narratives almost inevitably lead to the postulation of neat trees of dialect divergence out of the homogenous standard of an assumed prestige koiné, and to widespread neglect of colloquial, technical, or ritual speech, of loanwords, alloglottographies and similar phenomena.

Word Forms

• alloglottographies

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include translit, orthologization, glottophagy, allotransplant, transliteration, cotranslation.

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