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Volume V, Issue 3   --   August, 2004


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

- updated 12 February 2024 -



       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: 85 (through review 5200).



Language of origin of books reviewed
Rank Language 1-1000 1-2000 1-3000 1-4000 1-5000 1-5100 1-5200 per cent
1 English 681 1066 1313.5 1470 1714 1747 1776 34.15
2 French 74 212 388 603 766 776 787 15.13
3 Spanish 41 110 205 297 365 372 377 7.25
4 German 50 102 161 213 287.5 300.5 310.5 5.97
5 Japanese 10 65 115.5 203.5 284.5 295 308 5.92
6 Italian 16 47 70 115 146.5 148.5 149.5 2.88
7 Dutch/Flemish 35 68 91 112 132 134 134 2.58
8 Arabic 0 34 80 107 126 127 129 2.48
9 Russian 3 19 34 69.5 95.5 98.5 102.5 1.97
10 Norwegian 0 23 44 55 80 80 87 1.67
11 Chinese 9 23 37 59 81 83 85 1.63
12 Swedish 12 21 48 65 77 80 81 1.56
13 Portuguese 3 19 35 51 62 63 63 1.21
14 Korean 2 9.5 16.5 38.5 56.5 57.5 58.5 1.13
15 Serbo-Croat.¹ 5 19 31 42 56 56 56 1.08
16 Hungarian 6 22 36 42 45 45 46 0.88
-- Persian² 15 19 31 38 44 45 46 0.88
18 Polish 11 19.5 27.5 37.5 43.5 44.5 44.5 0.86
19 Czech 10 13 23 34 41 41 42 0.81
20 Hebrew 0 10 22 33 38 38 40 0.77
21 Danish 1 6 10 19 33 33 34 0.65
22 Romanian 4 9 17 22 31 32 33 0.63
23 Finnish 0 10 14 19 28 28 28 0.54
24 Turkish 0 4 14 22 25 26 26 0.50
25 Icelandic 0 3 10 17 22 22 22 0.42
-- Sanskrit 3 6 10 13 20 20 22 0.42
27 Greek (class.) 1 3 3 4 14 15 18 0.35
-- Latin 0 0 3 4 17 17 18 0.35
29 Greek (mod.) 0 5 10 15 17 17 17 0.33
-- Ukrainian 0 6 8 10 15 16 17 0.33
31 Bengali 0 0 4 9 16 16 16 0.31
-- Catalan 0 2 8 13 15 16 16 0.31
33 Afrikaans 0 1 11 14 15 15 15 0.29
-- Bulgarian 0 2 8 11 14 15 15 0.29
35 Georgian 0 0 1 8 12 13 13 0.25
-- Hindi 0 1 2 7 13 13 13 0.25
-- Indonesian 0 1 4 12 13 13 13 0.25
38 Urdu 2 2 6 9 12 12 12 0.23
39 Albanian 1 4 5 7 10 10 10 0.19
40 Estonian 0 1 4 8 9 9 9 0.17
-- Slovenian 2 3 6 7 9 9 9 0.17
42 Kannada 0 0 0 5 6 6 6 0.12
-- Malayalam 1 1 3 5 6 6 6 0.12
-- Slovakian 0 0 4 4 6 6 6 0.12
45 Galician 0 0 0 4 5 5 5 0.10
-- Vietnamese 0 0 2 3 5 5 5 0.10
47 Macedonian 1 2 3 3 4 4 4 0.08
-- Telugu 0 0 3 4 4 4 4 0.08
-- (diverse) 0 1 3 4 4 4 4 0.08
50 Acholi 0 1 1 3 3 3 3 0.06
-- Armenian 0 0 0 1 3 3 3 0.06
-- Gikuyu 0 1 2 2 3 3 3 0.06
-- Tamil 0 0 0 0 3 3 3 0.06
-- Thai 0 0 0 2 3 3 3 0.06
-- Tibetan 0 0 0 0 3 3 3 0.06
56 Burmese 0 0 2 2.5 2.5 2.5 2.5 0.05
57 Basque 0 0 1 1 2 2 2 0.04
-- Belarusian 0 0 0 1 2 2 2 0.04
-- Greenlandic 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 0.04
-- Irish 0 0 0 2 2 2 2 0.04
-- Kyrgyz 0 0 0 1 1 2 2 0.04
-- Latvian 0 0 0 0 2 2 2 0.04
-- Lithuanian 0 1 1 1 2 2 2 0.04
-- Malay 0 0 0 2 2 2 2 0.04
-- Nepali 0 0 1 1 2 2 2 0.04
-- Yiddish 0 0 0 1 2 2 2 0.04
-- Yoruba 0 1 2 2 2 2 2 0.04
-- Zulu 0 0 1 1 2 2 2 0.04
69 Amharic 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0.02
-- Assamese 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0.02
-- Chaghatay T. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0.02
-- Faroese 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0.02
-- Gujarati 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0.02
-- Khmer 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0.02
-- Maltese 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0.02
-- Marathi 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0.02
-- Occitan 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0.02
-- Sesotho 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0.02
-- Syriac 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0.02
-- Tigrinya 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0.02
-- Turkmen 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0.02
-- Uyghur 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0.02
-- Uzbek 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0.02
-- Welsh 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0.02
85 Esperanto 0 0 0 0 0 0.5 0.5 0.01
-- Romansh 0 0 0 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.01

       ¹ "Serbo-Croatian" includes what are now called Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, and Montenegrin
       ² "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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