target language
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(linguistics) The language a learner is attempting to acquire.
(linguistics, translation studies) The language into which a translation is done.
(computing) The machine language into which source code is to be compiled.
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Chance of source language influencing the target language and that of the translator intervening onto the style of original writer are major challenges in literary translation.
Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters, p. 113-114 Additionally, translators of minorised languages often have to face another problem: some terms may not even exist in the target language.
Another way to deal with named entities is to use transliteration instead of translation, meaning that you find the letters in the target language that most closely correspond to the name in the source language.
Generally, rule-based methods parse a text, usually creating an intermediary, symbolic representation, from which the text in the target language is generated.
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C, often viewed as some sort of portable assembler, can also be the target language of a compiler.