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Volume V, Issue 3   --   August, 2004


How international are we ?
Literature in translation at the complete review

- updated 4 February 2010 -



       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: 52 (through review 2400).



Language of origin of books reviewed
Rank Language 1-1000 1-1500 1-2000 1-2100 1-2200 1-2300 1-2400 per cent
1 English 681 926 1066 1086.5 1107.5 1137.5 1162 48.42
2 French 74 136 212 226 249 267 281 11.71
3 Spanish 41 65 110 116 127 136 150 6.25
4 German 50 80 102 107 119 124 126.5 5.27
5 Japanese 10 34 65 73.5 76.5 77.5 81.5 3.40
6 Dutch/Flemish 35 47 68 69 70 73 78 3.25
7 Arabic 0 6 34 41 44 51 58 2.42
8 Italian 16 29 47 51 54 55 57 2.38
9 Norwegian 0 13 23 26 26 30 32 1.33
10 Swedish 12 17 21 25 27 28 30 1.25
11 Hungarian 6 12 22 24 27 28 29 1.21
12 Chinese 9 15 23 23 25 26 28 1.17
13 Russian 3 9 19 21 23 23 25 1.04
-- Serbo-Croatian 5 11 19 23 23 25 25 1.04
15 Portuguese 3 10 19 21 21 22 24 1.00
16 Polish 11 15 19.5 20.5 21.5 22.5 23.5 0.98
17 Persian¹ 15 15 19 21 21 21 23 0.96
18 Czech 10 11 13 14 14 17 17 0.71
19 Hebrew 0 5 10 11 12 15 15 0.63
20 Romanian 4 5 9 9 10 10 12 0.50
21 Korean 2 3 9.5 9.5 9.5 10.5 11.5 0.48
22 Finnish 0 3 10 10 10 11 11 0.46
23 Turkish 0 3 4 6 6 9 9 0.38
24 Greek (modern) 0 2 5 6 7 7 8 0.33
- Sanskrit 3 6 6 6 6 6 8 0.33
26 Afrikaans 0 1 1 5 6 6 7 0.29
- Danish 1 1 6 6 7 7 7 0.29
- Ukrainian 0 2 6 6 7 7 7 0.29
29 Bulgarian 0 1 2 3 3 4 5 0.21
- Icelandic 0 2 3 3 5 5 5 0.21
31 Albanian 1 1 4 4 4 4 4 0.17
- Catalan 0 0 2 2 3 4 4 0.17
- Slovenian 2 3 3 4 4 4 4 0.17
- Urdu 2 2 2 3 3 3 4 0.17
35 Estonian 0 0 1 1 2 3 3 0.13
- Greek (classical) 1 2 3 3 3 3 3 0.13
37 Burmese 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 0.08
- (diverse) 0 0 1 1 1 2 2 0.08
- Macedonian 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 0.08
- Malayalam 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 0.08
- Yoruba 0 1 1 1 1 1 2 0.08
42 Acholi 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0.04
- Chaghatay Turkish 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0.04
- Gikuyu 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0.04
- Hindi 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0.04
- Indonesian 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0.04
- Latin 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.04
- Lithuanian 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0.04
- Nepali 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0.04
- Telugu 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0.04
- Vietnamese 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.04
- Welsh 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0.04
- Zulu 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0.04

       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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