Kazakh jewelry: problems of translation and creation of a multilingual thesaurus

Abstract

In the era of globalization, the significance of some national decorations is lost, and their etymology had been forgotten. Since the time of independent Kazakhstan, more attention has been paid to the revival of national culture and its values. Kazakh jewelry is important part of national culture. Kazakh jewelry has been studied by Kazakhstani scientists in the fields of ethnography, history, culture, and language. However, Kazakh jewelry vocabulary has not been the subject of special research in comparative and contrastive aspects. Besides, the peculiarities of the translation of jewelry items from Kazakh into other languages have not been previously studied. The State Program “Digital Kazakhstan” requires an innovative approach to linguistic research. Currently, there is a great need to create innovative modern dictionaries. These dictionaries are (electronic) multilingual dictionaries/thesauri on subject areas, developed by linguists in cooperation with specialists of computer science.