Language-translator: Program that is used to translate information or instructions that are written in source to object language. It means that can translate from high-level language or assembly-language into machine-language.

• There are generally three types of language- translator- Compiler, Assembler, Interpreter.
• Complier is that kind of program which translates one language into other target-language
• Linker is not language- translator.

Source: Lucent’s Computer