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Talking politics in a low-resource language

Source: Multilingual, December 4th 2022

A five-day workshop at the University of Kashmir culminated in the completion of a nearly 4,000-word glossary of political science terminology translated into the Kashmiri language.

The university claims this is a first-of-its-kind effort to create a glossary of specialized jargon in the Kashmiri language. As MultiLingual has reported over the years, translating jargon and other niche terms into less widely spoken or otherwise low-resource languages, can be tricky — some languages may not have words for concepts that people take for granted in languages like English or Mandarin Chinese. However, compiling a glossary like this one helps to make things a little bit less tricky.

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