Found: Sci-fi book about translators
Original topic subject: Sci-fi book about translators
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1catnthecradle
Hi, I'm hoping someone can tell me the name of a book I read several years ago. It was about families whose profession was as translators for different alien species. The families would have their infant children learn a language and then the child would become a type of UN translator for that language. The main thing about the book was the gender discrimination against women. There was a huge reversal of feminist laws, and women lost all their recent gains and were back to second class citizens. The women of the translating families were inventing a language of women for women. Please help me find this book. (There might be a second in the series, but I'm not sure)
Found : Native Tongue
Found : Native Tongue
2konallis
Native Tongue by Suzette Haden Elgin.
3catnthecradle
That's it. Thank you.
4DisassemblyOfReason
There are 3 books in the series; Native Tongue, Native Tongue: The Judas Rose, and Native Tongue: Earthsong.