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AN EXPERIENCE of TRANSLATING NEPALI GRAMMAR INTO ENGLISH Govinda Raj Bhattarai and Bal Ram Adhikari Tu.Govinda@Gmail.Com; Balram34@Yahoo.Co.Uk AN EXPERIENCE OF TRANSLATING NEPALI GRAMMAR INTO ENGLISH Govinda Raj Bhattarai and Bal Ram Adhikari [email protected]; [email protected] 1. Introduction Translating a grammar from one language to another sounds impossible because two languages differ basically in terms of grammar which stands for different components from sound to discourse units. Despite this fact, the world has translated grammar between languages, as it is the most authentic door to enter into another language, its structure, form and function. Greek grammars were translated into Latin and it is from Latin that many western grammars have been reshaped, some in translation, some in adaptation and others in considerable degree of borrowing as well. The grammars of all young languages undergo such a process in course of evolution. This applies to Nepali as well. Pande's Chandrika Gorkha Bhasa Vyakaran (1912) and Sharma's Madhya Chandrika (1919) (quoted in Schmidt and Dahal 1993: x) are some seminal works in Nepali grammar. These works in their attempt to codify and describe the Nepali language adopted the model of Sanskrit grammar. The modern Nepali grammar has evolved through a long and exacting process. Whitney's Sanskrit Grammar (1879) is a best example of translation of classical grammar into contemporary languages. There have been some efforts made in Nepali too. Some works like Ayton (1820), Turnbull (1888) Kilgour and Duncan (1922), Turner (1931), Clark (1963) and Matthews (1984) border between translation and restructuring. Many other foreign scholars have contributed towards writing Nepali grammar till date. They have laid the foundation stone of Nepali grammar in English. Similarly, the works by Nepali Nepalese Linguistics, Vol. 23, 2008, pp. 25-39. 26 / An experience of translating ... scholars such as Sharma (1983), and Acharya (1991), and Schmidt and Dahal (1993) deserve a special mention from both linguistic and pedagogical viewpoints. However, we felt a dire need of such a Nepali grammar as is written by the Nepali scholar and translated/interpreted by native speakers available in English so we selected a modern text Samasamayik Nepali Vyakaran (A Contemporary Nepali Grammar) written by a prominent Nepali grammarian Hemanga Raj Adhikari. The project took a whole year to accomplish the impossible task. It may still require months to bring this to a final desirable size and shape, and standard. This involves many revisits and a good deal of re-editing. However, at this moment we feel Contemporary Nepali Grammar (CNV) will be the first and complete work (grammar book) in English. This article is the recount of the translation process and product, and experience of we three (writer Hemanga Raj Adhikari, translator Bal Ram Adhikari and editor Govinda Raj Bhattarai). We concentrate specifically on linguistic problems though translating involves many more like cultural, social, philosophical, etc. 2. Translating Nepali grammar To write with Chomsky a grammar is a systematic description of the linguistic abilities of the native speaker of a language which enable him to speak and understand his language fluently (quoted in Radford 1981: 2). Nepali grammar, like any language i.e. its grammar, is characterized by the following distinct types of properties: i) absolute universals (the absolute properties which all grammars of languages share without any exception such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs) Bhattarai and Adhikari / 27 ii) relative universals (the properties which reflect a general tendency in languages with some exceptions such as postpositions, cases, case-endings) iii) marked properties (the properties which go against general tendencies and are hence exceptional in some way. These properties are almost unique to the languages concerned, such as intransitive passive, honorific concord, gender concord in Nepali.) We faced different problems while rendering these properties of the source language (SL) Nepali into the target language (TL) English. Absolute universals and relative universals were relatively easier to translate than marked properties. In other words, most of the linguistic problems in translation of grammar emanated from the SL properties absent from or foreign to the TL, particularly its relative and marked properties such as nipat, gender concord, oblique forms, honorific concord and others. 3. Samasamayik Nepali Vyakaran Modeled on the modern linguistic theories, Samasamayik Nepali Vyakarnan shows its departure from the tradition of writing Nepali grammar in the Sanskrit framework, though it has retained much of the traditional grammatical terminology that seems relevant to and inevitable for the description and analysis of the Nepali language. The book systematically describes forms, structures and major trends of the Nepali language. This grammar can be regarded as a synthesis of knowledge about the grammatical properties of Nepali, with its prime focus on the descriptive approach and stylistic variations well supported by copious illustration. The book was first published in 1993 and is now in its third edition. It is the reference grammar of the language, prescribed for the university level teachers and students. Divided into three 28 / An experience of translating ... major sections such as Phonology, Syntax and Lexicon, the book comprises the following fifteen chapters: 1. Phonology 2. Parts of speech 3. Concord 4. Verbs and their types 5. Verbs : tense, aspect and mood/modality 6. Inflection of verbs 7. Negation 8. Voice 9. Causatives 10. Components, functions and semantic roles of a sentence 11. Case-endings and their functions 12. Types of sentences: simple and complex 13. Complex and embedded sentences 14. Narration 15. Derivation Grammar, like science, has its own terminology and a special vocabulary. The source text abounds in technical terms and numerous words with a special grammatical significance. Thus, our prime concern was to maintain the terminological equivalence between the SL and the TL. For this we have adopted the procedures such as : – Literal translation (for example, the use of the terms such as 'vowel', 'consonant', 'syllable' and 'noun substitute' for the terms 'swr, 'bynjn ', 'chyr ', 'namsthank ' respectively – Paraphrasing (for example, 'the word ending with a vowel ', 'the word ending with a consonant' and 'intransitive passivisation' for the'jnt ', 'hlnt' and 'bhabe pryo' respectively), – Substitution ( for example, the use of the terms such as 'particles', 'regular suffixes' and 'conditional' for Bhattarai and Adhikari / 29 'npat', 'sarbdhatk prtyy' and 'snketarthk' respectively.) – Borrowing (for example, t, tnt, dwnda,) bhbrh, ttprs, tdhdt 4. Translating some marked grammatical properties of the Nepali language Since languages generally differ radically in both grammatical structures and lexicalization of the concepts, they in most of the cases defy one to one formal correspondence. However, it certainly does not mean that we cannot render them into another language, for untranslatability is a matter of degree and it depends on the nature of the text to be translated and the translators' competence, apart from 'equivalent' similarities available. Based on this assumption, we have adopted the translation procedures, such as substitution, paraphrasing, adaptation and borrowing to translate those grammatical components which are absent from the English language. Here we confine our discussion to the translation of the following marked properties of the Nepali language: 4.1 Nipats n, n, l, t, ke, k, po, cah, re, etc. are nipats, translated as particles. Acharya (1991: 86) calls them 'nuance particles', while Hari (1973) has used the terms 'attitudinal particles', 'undefined particles' and 'emphasis particles' (quoted in Acharya 1991: 142). These particles, though syntactically dependent upon phrases or sentences, can be omitted without impairing the syntactic constructions in which they occur. They should not be mistaken for English particles, which express some connective or limiting relation or a perfective meaning in phrases such as beat up and cut up and their omission impairs the constructions in which they occur. Nepali particles are employed to highlight the meaning of the immediate words they precede or follow, or the sentence 30 / An experience of translating ... itself, and they lack any specific meanings unless used in sentences and hence their independent or literal translation is next to impossible. Their meanings, therefore, have to be predicted from the context only. Let us consider the following examples: (1) a. tyha her n. Look there please./Do look there. b. ram yaha bsch h. Ram sits here. Okay? c. ram bhol ach re. They say/someone says Ram will come tomorrow. d. l m bhol ach. Okay/Well, I will come tomorrow. (Adhikari 1993: 69-71) In these sentences n adds urgency or politeness to the command, h implies insistence, re implies indirectness or indifference and l an assurance, and we have used please/Do, Okay?, They say/someone says and Ok/Well respectively to give the contextual meanings of these particles in English. The English expressions used for the particles like these serve as the contextually approximate expressions only. 4.2 Case endings le, la, ma, dwara, ba, ko are case endings also called case suffixes or case markers. These bound morphemes affixed to nouns or noun substitutes express cases or semantic roles which in English are expressed by means of word order and prepositions. In most of the cases English translation of the Nepali sentences with case
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