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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6471 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes  Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 1 of 4 10 March 2011 at 10:49am | IP Logged | ||
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The book "Hälfte des Lebens", published by El Dragón de Gales, ISBN 978-84-96408-64-7
contains more than 70 (seventy!) different translations of the poem "Hälfte des Lebens" by Friedrich Hölderlin, each on a separate page, side-by-side. Amazing variety in terms of languages and writing systems: includes Sumerian Cuneiform, Hieroglyphics, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic, Tamazight (Tifinagh), Western Armenian, Georgian, Chinese and Japanese. Additional unusual languages covered: old English/French/German, Judeo-Spanish, Luxembourgish, Sorabian, Lunfardo, Aymará, Quechua, Haitian Creole 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| lingoleng Senior Member Germany Joined 5299 days ago 605 posts - 1290 votes | Message 2 of 4 10 March 2011 at 2:35pm | IP Logged | ||
I am glad to hear about this. Hölderlin's opus is one of the most astonishing contributions to the German language ever, "Hälfte des Lebens" as one of the short and more accessible poems can be a good entry point. (German text and some translations) (There is a similar collection of translations of a Shakespeare sonnet, probably out of print, and I don't find any reference on line, but people with access to a good library can certainly find it among the different editions of the sonnets, well, a poor hint, I know.) Edited by lingoleng on 10 March 2011 at 5:31pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| vilas Pentaglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6961 days ago 531 posts - 722 votes Speaks: Spanish, Italian*, English, French, Portuguese | Message 3 of 4 10 March 2011 at 4:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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"The Little Prince" of Saint Exupery has been translated in more than 100 languages and dialects ( including Pennsylfaannisch Deitsche,Tetum Vabungula,Zazaki,Azeri,Lojban,Tagik,Khmer,Altaj,Maya Yucateco,Konkani,Kabardino,Papamientu,Quechua, Toba ,Guarani and a lot of dialects,creoles,pidgins etc etc),
in this link a huge collection of translations of it http://piccoloprincipe.fragomeni.it/collezione/ 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| JW Hexaglot Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/egw Joined 6123 days ago 1802 posts - 2011 votes 22 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Ancient Greek, French, Biblical Hebrew Studies: Luxembourgish, Dutch, Greek, Italian | Message 4 of 4 10 March 2011 at 10:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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This site has the Bible in about 70 languages, and it is searchable by verse:
http://mlbible.com/matthew/1-1.htm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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