The Application and Features of Animal Science Terms: Translation from English intoIndonesian

This study aims at finding the application of animal science terms and features oftranslation from the source language (SL) into the target language (TL). Theapplication and features of terms in naturalness of languages was foundstructured. This study used qualitative method for the analysis that is presenteddescriptively. Terms were taken from two books, SL written in English and TL inIndonesian. Direct interview to scientists was conducted in order to obtaininformation of terms and find equivalences of terms in TL. The terms found withabsorption from the SL into TL, terms creation, standardization, and motivationto be scientifically understood by target readership. Features of translation werefound simplified in the form of language but some of them explicated in words ofTL translation, however, absorption in adaptation cannot be avoided. In addition,the uniqueness of the languages showed from the plurality of language form inSL is not always translated within reduplication in TL. It can be concluded thatthe translation of two different languages have their own standard of writing andunderstanding, especially in scientific languages.