# Archetype original language and translation policies

**URL:** https://discourse.openehr.org/t/archetype-original-language-and-translation-policies/1649
**Category:** Clinical
**Created:** [21 June 2021 15:26 UTC](https://discourse.openehr.org/t/archetype-original-language-and-translation-policies/1649 "2021-06-21T15:26:35Z")
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### Author: ![thomas.beale](https://discourse.openehr.org/user_avatar/discourse.openehr.org/thomas.beale/32/35_2.png) [@thomas.beale](https://discourse.openehr.org/u/thomas.beale)
#### Post date: [21 June 2021 20:19 UTC](https://discourse.openehr.org/t/archetype-original-language-and-translation-policies/1649/3 "2021-06-21T20:19:59Z")

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> [@New Oncology Archetypes](https://discourse.openehr.org/t/new-oncology-archetypes/1308/32):
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> Having any other language than English as the original makes this a difficult proposition.

I am surprised to hear this myself. If some archetypes are authored originally in (say) Spanish and offered to CKM (and let’s assume they’re clinically high quality), then I can see that the international CKM group might say: well you guys need to also provide a reliable translation to English as well (@damoca 's second point above), since we are not expert Spanish speakers, and if you don’t, we are just going to ask you or someone else to do such a translation.

But that’s not the same as requiring the archetypes to be originally authored in English.

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