In the era of global information exchange, translating financial-engineering and economic terms from English into languages with different linguistic structures such as Korean and Uzbek presents significant challenges. These challenges are shaped by linguistic, cultural, historical, and political factors, including phonetic systems, morphological structures, and socio-political language policies. This paper conducts a comparative lexical-semantic analysis of financial terminology from Robert Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad Poor Dad across English, Korean, and Uzbek. The study evaluates translation strategies such as semantic calque, loan-blend, transliteration, modulation, and syntactic transformation. Findings highlight differences in how historical borrowings, phonological adaptation, and internal lexical resources shape terminological adequacy and user accessibility. The paper concludes with implications for translation theory and financial discourse localization.

Financial terminology, semantic calque, loan-blend

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