The Translation of Hebrew Flora and Fauna Terminology in North Sámi and West Greenlandic Fin-de-Siècle Bibles
This study is a comparative analysis of the strategies employed in the translation of geographically specific flora and fauna terminology in the first complete Hebrew Bible translations into North Sámi (1895) and West Greenlandic (1900). These two contemporaneous translations lend themselves to frui...
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ftucl:oai:eprints.ucl.ac.uk.OAI2:10079019 2023-12-24T10:13:30+01:00 The Translation of Hebrew Flora and Fauna Terminology in North Sámi and West Greenlandic Fin-de-Siècle Bibles Kahn, L Valijarvi, R 2019-08-08 text https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10079019/3/Kahn%20Arctic%20Bible%20translations%20article%20REVISED.pdf https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10079019/ eng eng https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10079019/3/Kahn%20Arctic%20Bible%20translations%20article%20REVISED.pdf https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10079019/ open The Bible Translator , 70 (2) pp. 125-144. (2019) translation translation strategies Sámi Greenlandic foreignising domesticating Arctic Hebrew Bible flora fauna Article 2019 ftucl 2023-11-27T13:07:36Z This study is a comparative analysis of the strategies employed in the translation of geographically specific flora and fauna terminology in the first complete Hebrew Bible translations into North Sámi (1895) and West Greenlandic (1900). These two contemporaneous translations lend themselves to fruitful comparison because both North Sámi and Greenlandic are spoken in the Arctic by the indigenous communities which share a similar history of colonisation by Lutheran Scandinavians. Despite this common background, our study reveals a striking difference in translation methods: the North Sámi translation exhibits a systematic foreignising, formally equivalent approach using loan words from Scandinavian languages (e.g. šakkalak ‘jackals’ from Norwegian sjakaler, granatæbel ‘pomegranate’ from Norwegian granateple), whereas the Greenlandic translation typically creates descriptive neologisms (e.g. milakulâĸ ‘the spotted one’ for ‘leopard’) or utilises culturally specific domesticating, dynamically equivalent Arctic terms (e.g. kingmernarssuaK ‘big lingonberry’ for ‘pomegranate’). The paper assesses the reasons behind these different translatorial approaches. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic greenlandic North Sámi University College London: UCL Discovery Arctic |
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This study is a comparative analysis of the strategies employed in the translation of geographically specific flora and fauna terminology in the first complete Hebrew Bible translations into North Sámi (1895) and West Greenlandic (1900). These two contemporaneous translations lend themselves to fruitful comparison because both North Sámi and Greenlandic are spoken in the Arctic by the indigenous communities which share a similar history of colonisation by Lutheran Scandinavians. Despite this common background, our study reveals a striking difference in translation methods: the North Sámi translation exhibits a systematic foreignising, formally equivalent approach using loan words from Scandinavian languages (e.g. šakkalak ‘jackals’ from Norwegian sjakaler, granatæbel ‘pomegranate’ from Norwegian granateple), whereas the Greenlandic translation typically creates descriptive neologisms (e.g. milakulâĸ ‘the spotted one’ for ‘leopard’) or utilises culturally specific domesticating, dynamically equivalent Arctic terms (e.g. kingmernarssuaK ‘big lingonberry’ for ‘pomegranate’). The paper assesses the reasons behind these different translatorial approaches. |
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The Translation of Hebrew Flora and Fauna Terminology in North Sámi and West Greenlandic Fin-de-Siècle Bibles |
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The Translation of Hebrew Flora and Fauna Terminology in North Sámi and West Greenlandic Fin-de-Siècle Bibles |
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The Translation of Hebrew Flora and Fauna Terminology in North Sámi and West Greenlandic Fin-de-Siècle Bibles |
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The Translation of Hebrew Flora and Fauna Terminology in North Sámi and West Greenlandic Fin-de-Siècle Bibles |
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The Translation of Hebrew Flora and Fauna Terminology in North Sámi and West Greenlandic Fin-de-Siècle Bibles |
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translation of hebrew flora and fauna terminology in north sámi and west greenlandic fin-de-siècle bibles |
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The Bible Translator , 70 (2) pp. 125-144. (2019) |
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