TERMCAT is a public Catalan institution created in 1985 in order to ensure the development and integration of Catalan terminology for the preparation of terminological resources, standardization of terminology neologisms and advice on a regular and ongoing dialogue with users specialists. Since 1998, its terminology notices are obligatory in the scientific and technical publications of the public administration of the country. Neologisms are approved and published in the Official Journal Diari Oficial de la Generalitat de Catalunya.[1]
It was created in Barcelona in 1985 as a joint initiative of the Ministry of Culture of the Generalitat of Catalonia and the Institute of Catalan Studies (IEC). Since 1994 the Consortium for Standardization language was added to the management of the consortium. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERMCAT
The terms for Islamic veils, featured in a new interactive infographic.
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TERMCAT shows the terms referring to seven types of veils used mainly in Islamic culture in a new interactive infographic.
The illustration allows you to distinguish at a glance between amira, burqa, hijab, khimar, nicab, xador and xaila, with links to the corresponding entries in Cercaterm where you can read the definition and equivalents in Spanish , French and English.
These are adapted forms of the original Arabic words, after an examination of each case, taking into account the opinion of various transcription experts. The dissemination of these Catalan forms is a response to various requests from journalists, translators and other professionals who require accurate and appropriate use of these terms.
The infographic complements the graphic and multimedia offer of the TERMCAT website with over a hundred resources that provide access to terminology of all types of sectors in a visual and attractive way. Termcat
