Translation is an art. Not everyone who knows two languages can translate one into another. It takes a great amount of patience, dexterity, and knowledge to be able to translate important documents or works of art.
Here are a few rare known translation facts you might not know:
- “Translationis” is a latin word that makes the word “translation.” “Translationis” stands for “transporting or transferring something.”
- ‘Index Translationum’ is an online database maintained by UNESCO. It documents the data of all the books that have ever been translated in the known history.
- Bible is the most translated book of all time.
- The English language comprises over 250,000 words. An average human knows 10-20,000 English words.
- Spanish is the easiest language to translate.
- Saint Jerome is considered as the patron saint of translation as a profession because he translated Bible into Latin in the 5th
- September 30 is internationally observed as International Translation Day.
- Agatha Christie, Jules Verne and William Shakespeare are the three most translated authors of all time.
- Harry Potter has been translated into nearly 70 languages.
- English, French, German, Italian and Russian are highly translated languages with common target languages being German, French, Spanish, English and Japanese.
While there are estimated to be over 330,000 translators worldwide, there are only a few offering professional translation and interpretation services worldwide.
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