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Interpretation or interpreting is oral translation of speech or sign from a language into another.

Translation studies is the systematic study of the theory, description and application of interpretation and translation.

Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text.

While interpreting—the facilitating of oral or sign-language communication between users of different languages—antedates writing, translation began only after the appearance of written literature.

There exist partial translations of the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh (ca.

2000 BCE) into Southwest Asian languages of the second millennium BCE.

The language industry is the sector of activity dedicated to facilitating multilingual communication, both oral and written.

According to the European Commission's Directorate-General of Translation, the language industry comprises the activities of translation, interpreting, subtitling and dubbing, software and website globalisation, language technology tools development, international conference organisation, language teaching and linguistic consultancy.

According to the Canadian Language Industry Association, this sector comprises translation (with interpreting, subtitling and localisation), language training and language technologies.

The European Language Industry Association limits the sector to translation, localisation, internationalisation and globalisation.

An older, perhaps outdated view confines the language industry to computerised language processing and places it within the information technology industry.

An emerging view expands this sector to include editing for authors who write in a second language—especially English—for international communication.