Volume V, Issue 3 -- August, 2004
How international are we ?
Literature in translation at the complete review
- updated 6 July 2008 -
The list below offers a breakdown of the languages in which all the works under review at the complete review were originally written; it will be updated after every batch of one hundred reviews.
See also the discussion of How international are we ?
Total languages represented: 48 (through review 2100).
Language of origin of books reviewed Rank Language 1-1000 1-1500 1-2000 1-2100 per cent 1 English 681 926 1066 1086.5 51.74 2 French 74 136 212 226 10.76 3 Spanish 41 65 110 116 5.52 4 German 50 80 102 107 5.10 5 Japanese 10 34 65 73.5 3.50 6 Dutch/Flemish 35 47 68 69 3.29 7 Italian 16 29 47 51 2.43 8 Arabic 0 6 34 41 1.95 9 Norwegian 0 13 23 26 1.24 10 Swedish 12 17 21 25 1.19 11 Hungarian 6 12 22 24 1.14 12 Chinese 9 15 23 23 1.10 - Serbo-Croatian 5 11 19 23 1.10 14 Persian¹ 15 15 19 21 1.00 - Portuguese 3 10 19 21 1.00 - Russian 3 9 19 21 1.00 17 Polish 11 15 19.5 20.5 0.98 18 Czech 10 11 13 14 0.67 19 Hebrew 0 5 10 11 0.52 20 Finnish 0 3 10 10 0.48 21 Korean 2 3 9.5 9.5 0.45 22 Romanian 4 5 9 9 0.42 23 Danish 1 1 6 6 0.29 - Greek (modern) 0 2 5 6 0.29 - Sanskrit 3 6 6 6 0.29 - Turkish 0 3 4 6 0.29 - Ukrainian 0 2 6 6 0.29 28 Afrikaans 0 1 1 5 0.24 29 Albanian 1 1 4 4 0.19 - Slovenian 2 3 3 4 0.19 31 Bulgarian 0 1 2 3 0.14 - Greek (classical) 1 2 3 3 0.14 - Icelandic 0 2 3 3 0.14 - Urdu 2 2 2 3 0.14 35 Catalan 0 0 2 2 0.10 - Macedonian 1 1 2 2 0.10 37 Acholi 0 0 1 1 0.05 - Chaghatay Turkish 1 1 1 1 0.05 - Estonian 0 0 1 1 0.05 - Gikuyu 0 0 1 1 0.05 - Hindi 0 1 1 1 0.05 - Indonesian 0 1 1 1 0.05 - Lithuanian 0 0 1 1 0.05 - Malayalam 1 1 1 1 0.05 - Nepali 0 0 0 1 0.05 - Welsh 0 1 1 1 0.05 - Yoruba 0 1 1 1 0.05 - Zulu 0 0 0 1 0.05 - (diverse) 0 0 1 1 0.05
¹ "Persian" includes both classical and modern Persian (Farsi)
Note also that some languages -- Italian, Persian, and Sanskrit -- benefit from multiple reviews of different translations of the same original text.
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