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September 7, 2008

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A List of Known Translations of Sherlock Holmes
By Don Hobbs

I have been asked several times in recent weeks how many languages has Sherlock Holmes been translated into.  For those collectors out there and anyone else interested in the various types of translations available, I have included below the latest list.

Happy Collecting!!

1. Afrikaans
2. Albanian
3. Arabic
4. Armenian
5. Asturian 
6. Azerbaijani
7. Basque
8. Bengali
9. Bulgarian
10. Burmese
11. Catalan
12. Chinese
13. Czech
14. Danish
15. Dutch
16. Esperanto
17. Estonian
18. Farsi (Persian)
19. Finnish
20. French
21. Frisian
22. Friulan
23. Galacian
24. Gascon
25. Georgian
26. German
27. Greek
28. Gujarati
29. Hebrew
30. Hindi
31. Hungarian
32. Icelandic
33. Indonesian
34. Interlingua
35. Inuit (Greenlandic)
36. Irish Gaelic
37. Italian
38. Japanese
39. Kannada
40. Kazakh
41. Korean
42. Latin
43. Latvian (Lettish)
44. Lithuanian
45. Lushai (Mizo)
46. Macedonian
47. Malay
48. Malayalam
49. Marathi
50. Moldovian
51. Mongolian
52. Neapolitan
53. Norwegian
54. Oriya
55. Polish
56. Portuguese
57. Romanian
58. Rumansch
59. Russian
60. Scottish Gaelic
61. Serbo-Croatian
62. Sindhi
63. Sinhala
64. Slovak
65. Slovenian
66. Sotho
67. Spanish
68. Swahili
69. Swedish
70. Tamil
71. Telugu
72. Thai
73. Turkish
74. Ukrainian
75. Urdu
76. Uzbek
77. Valencian (Dialect of Catalan)
78. Vietnamese
79. Yiddish

Others
1. Braille
2. Dancing Men
3. Deseret Alphabet
4. Ebonics
5. Gregg Shorthand
6. Pig Latin
7. Pitman Shorthand
8. Morse Code

Pastiches
1. Navaho
2. Maltese