Target language
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Target language may refer to:
- Target language, in applied linguistics and language education, the language which a person is learning, also called second languageSecond languageA second language or L2 is any language learned after the first language or mother tongue. Some languages, often called auxiliary languages, are used primarily as second languages or lingua francas ....
- Target language, in translationTranslationTranslation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. Whereas interpreting undoubtedly antedates writing, translation began only after the appearance of written literature; there exist partial translations of the Sumerian Epic of...
, the language to which a source text is translated - Target language, in computer science, the computer language that a compilerCompilerA compiler is a computer program that transforms source code written in a programming language into another computer language...
translates into source code