source language
Text's native language
Source language is the language from which something is being translated: The source language was German; the target language was English.
In computing, source language refers to the programming language in which code is originally written before compilation or translation into machine code.
Rules for arranging words
- semanticsStudy of linguistic meaning
- phonologyScience of language sounds
- morphologyStudy of structural forms
- grammarLanguage's structural rules
lexicon · pragmatics · etymology · cognates · dialect · phonetics · sociolinguistics · psycholinguistics
syntax
Rules for arranging words
- semanticsStudy of linguistic meaning
- phonologyScience of language sounds
- morphologyStudy of structural forms
grammar · lexicon · pragmatics · etymology · cognates · dialect · phonetics · sociolinguistics · psycholinguistics · neurolinguistics
- translationtranslator, literal translation, literary translation, free translation, French translation
- translation termstranslation, literal translation, free translation, word-for-word, localization
- Translation Industrytranslator, interpreter, proofreader, editor, localization
- Interpretinghandover, RSI
- localizationlocalization, locale, translation memory, glossaries, text translation
- translation technologymachine translation, automated translation, translation software, translation tools, translation memory
source languagetarget language
Language being acquired
object code · machine code · machine language · compiled code · bytecode
language, source, resource, resources, resourceful, sources, resourcefulness, sourced, sourcing