Volume V, Issue 3   --   August, 2004

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

- updated 4 February 2010 -

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       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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