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Volume V, Issue 3   --   August, 2004


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

- updated 20 March 2013 -



       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: 60 (through review 3100).



Language of origin of books reviewed
Rank Language 1-1000 1-1500 1-2000 1-2500 1-3000 1-3100 per cent
1 English 681 926 1066 1186 1313.5 1324.5 42.73
2 French 74 136 212 305 388 406 13.10
3 Spanish 41 65 110 159 205 213 6.87
4 German 50 80 102 128.5 161 165 5.32
5 Japanese 10 34 65 88.5 115.5 128.5 4.15
6 Dutch/Flemish 35 47 68 80 91 96 3.10
7 Arabic 0 6 34 63 80 86 2.77
8 Italian 16 29 47 58 70 73 2.35
9 Swedish 12 17 21 31 48 50 1.61
10 Norwegian 0 13 23 33 44 44 1.42
11 Russian 3 9 19 26 34 41 1.32
11 Chinese 9 15 23 30 37 40 1.29
13 Portuguese 3 10 19 24 35 38 1.23
14 Hungarian 6 12 22 30 36 37 1.19
15 Persian¹ 15 15 19 23 31 31 1.00
-- Serbo-Croatian 5 11 19 25 31 31 1.00
17 Polish 11 15 19.5 24.5 27.5 28.5 0.92
18 Hebrew 0 5 10 15 22 24 0.77
19 Czech 10 11 13 17 23 23 0.74
20 Romanian 4 5 9 13 17 17 0.55
21 Korean 2 3 9.5 12.5 16.5 16.5 0.53
22 Turkish 0 3 4 10 14 16 0.52
23 Finnish 0 3 10 12 14 15 0.48
24 Icelandic 0 2 3 5 10 13 0.42
25 Afrikaans 0 1 1 8 11 11 0.35
26 Danish 1 1 6 7 10 10 0.32
-- Greek (modern) 0 2 5 10 10 10 0.32
-- Sanskrit 3 6 6 8 10 10 0.32
-- Catalan 0 0 2 5 8 9 0.29
30 Bulgarian 0 1 2 6 8 8 0.26
-- Ukrainian 0 2 6 7 8 8 0.26
32 Urdu 2 2 2 5 6 7 0.23
33 Albanian 1 1 4 4 5 6 0.19
-- Slovenian 2 3 3 4 6 6 0.19
35 Indonesian 0 1 1 1 4 5 0.16
36 Bengali 0 0 0 1 4 4 0.13
-- Estonian 0 0 1 3 4 4 0.13
-- Slovakian 0 0 0 3 4 4 0.13
39 Greek (classical) 1 2 3 3 3 3 0.10
-- Hindi 0 1 1 2 2 3 0.10
-- Latin 0 0 0 1 3 3 0.10
-- Macedonian 1 1 2 2 3 3 0.10
-- Malayalam 1 1 1 2 3 3 0.10
-- Telugu 0 0 0 2 3 3 0.10
-- (diverse) 0 0 1 3 3 3 0.10
46 Burmese 0 0 0 2 2 2 0.06
-- Gikuyu 0 0 1 1 2 2 0.06
-- Vietnamese 0 0 0 1 2 2 0.06
-- Yoruba 0 1 1 2 2 2 0.06
50 Acholi 0 0 1 1 1 1 0.03
-- Amharic 0 0 0 1 1 1 0.03
-- Assamese 0 0 0 1 1 1 0.03
-- Basque 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.03
-- Chaghatay Turkish 1 1 1 1 1 1 0.03
-- Georgian 0 0 0 0 1 1 0.03
-- Kannada 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.03
-- Lithuanian 0 0 1 1 1 1 0.03
-- Nepali 0 0 0 1 1 1 0.03
-- Tigrinya 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.03
-- Welsh 0 1 1 1 1 1 0.03
-- Zulu 0 0 0 1 1 1 0.03

       ¹ "Persian" includes both classical and modern Persian (Farsi), as well as Dari

       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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