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Lookup NU author(s): Professor Rosaleen Howard, Luis Andrade
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New language rights legislation in Peru has triggered State training of indigenous translator-interpreters to work in public service and prior consultation settings. A spin-off of the training has been the translation of the text of the 2011 Languages Act from Spanish into a range of indigenous languages. This article focuses on the challenges of the translating process to Quechua and Aymara. These challenges were presented by the structural differences between source and target languages, the divergent conceptual systems that embed the original text and its translations, and the different trade-offs between orality and literacy of the cultural systems involved. Finally, issues concerning the relationship between the translators' cultural identities and the translation process arose; these are also addressed.
Author(s): Howard R, Andrade Ciudad L, de Pedro Ricoy R
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Amerindia: Revue d'Ethnolinguistique Amérindienne
Year: 2018
Volume: 40
Issue: 1
Pages: 219-245
Print publication date: 21/06/2018
Acceptance date: 20/01/2017
Date deposited: 06/05/2017
ISSN (print): 0221-8852
Publisher: Centre National de Recherche Scientifique CNRS
URL: https://www.vjf.cnrs.fr/sedyl/amerindia/articles/pdf/A_40_07.pdf
