alloglottography

plural alloglottographies

1. countableuncountableA direct translation of an utterance from one language to another such that the original utterance can be unambiguously and correctly recovered.

   For Iranian-speaking scribes, alloglottography would be rather preposterous.

   2006, Seth L. Sanders, Margins of Writing, Origins of Cultures, page 40

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   With a narrow definition of alloglottography, one that sees language learning via speech as inherent to scribal education and scribal life, I could definitely agree.

   2012, Rebecca Hasselbach, Na'ama Pat-El, Language and Nature, →ISBN

   Some texts extend alloglottography over entire clauses or even a whole text.

   2015, Aaron Butts, Semitic Languages in Contact, →ISBN, page 160

   Such narratives almost inevitably lead to the postulation of neat trees of dialect divergence out of the homogenous standard of an assumed prestige koiné, and to widespread neglect of colloquial, technical, or ritual speech, of loanwords, alloglottographies and similar phenomena.

   2017, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Behr, Academic Seminar: “Variation, deviation, migration: How unified was Old Chinese?”