Volume V, Issue 3 -- August, 2004
How international are we ?
Literature in translation at the complete review
- updated 12 December 2011 -
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: 56 (through review 2800).
Language of origin of books reviewed Rank Language 1-1000 1-1500 1-2000 1-2500 1-2600 1-2700 1-2800 per cent 1 English 681 926 1066 1186 1207.5 1228.5 1250.5 44.66 2 French 74 136 212 305 319 334 352 12.57 3 Spanish 41 65 110 159 167 175 189 6.75 4 German 50 80 102 128.5 138 149 152 5.43 5 Japanese 10 34 65 88.5 96.5 104.5 108.5 3.88 6 Dutch/Flemish 35 47 68 80 84 86 87 3.11 7 Arabic 0 6 34 63 66 69 73 2.61 8 Italian 16 29 47 58 60 61 65 2.32 9 Swedish 12 17 21 31 35 41 44 1.57 10 Norwegian 0 13 23 33 34 35 40 1.43 11 Chinese 9 15 23 30 31 31 33 1.18 12 Hungarian 6 12 22 30 30 32 32 1.14 13 Russian 3 9 19 26 27 29 31 1.11 14 Persian¹ 15 15 19 23 26 29 30 1.07 15 Portuguese 3 10 19 24 25 25 28 1.00 - Serbo-Croatian 5 11 19 25 25 26 28 1.00 17 Polish 11 15 19.5 24.5 25.5 25.5 25.5 0.91 18 Hebrew 0 5 10 15 18 20 22 0.79 19 Czech 10 11 13 17 18 21 21 0.75 20 Korean 2 3 9.5 12.5 12.5 15.5 16.5 0.59 21 Romanian 4 5 9 13 13 15 16 0.57 22 Turkish 0 3 4 10 12 12 13 0.46 23 Finnish 0 3 10 12 12 12 12 0.43 24 Afrikaans 0 1 1 8 8 9 10 0.36 - Greek (modern) 0 2 5 10 10 10 10 0.36 26 Danish 1 1 6 7 7 9 9 0.32 - Icelandic 0 2 3 5 7 8 9 0.32 - Sanskrit 3 6 6 8 8 8 9 0.32 29 Bulgarian 0 1 2 6 7 7 8 0.29 - Ukrainian 0 2 6 7 7 7 8 0.29 31 Catalan 0 0 2 5 5 6 6 0.21 - Slovenian 2 3 3 4 6 6 6 0.21 - Urdu 2 2 2 5 6 6 6 0.21 34 Albanian 1 1 4 4 5 5 5 0.18 35 Bengali 0 0 0 1 3 3 4 0.14 - Slovakian 0 0 0 3 4 4 4 0.14 37 Estonian 0 0 1 3 3 3 3 0.11 - Greek (classical) 1 2 3 3 3 3 3 0.11 - Latin 0 0 0 1 2 3 3 0.11 - Malayalam 1 1 1 2 2 2 3 0.11 - (diverse) 0 0 1 3 3 3 3 0.11 42 Burmese 0 0 0 2 2 2 2 0.07 - Gikuyu 0 0 1 1 2 2 2 0.07 - Hindi 0 1 1 2 2 2 2 0.07 - Macedonian 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 0.07 - Telugu 0 0 0 2 2 2 2 0.07 - Yoruba 0 1 1 2 2 2 2 0.07 48 Acholi 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0.04 - Amharic 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0.04 - Assamese 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0.04 - Chaghatay Turkish 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0.04 - Indonesian 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0.04 - Lithuanian 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0.04 - Nepali 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0.04 - Vietnamese 0 0 0 1 1 1 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), 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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