A few curious facts about translation from the English Express Journal:

A few curious facts about translation from the English Express Journal:

1. Saint Jerome translated the Bible into Latin in the 4^th century. His translation, known as the Vulgate, was the official Bible of the Catholic Church until the 16^th century.
2. According to the UNESCO International Index of Translated Books, the most translated authors of fiction worldwide are Agatha Christie, Jules Verne and William Shakespeare.
3. The most translated book in the world is the Bible, followed in second place by the children’s book The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi.
4. The word translation comes from the Latin word for “to move from one place to another”.
5. Genesis 1:1 of the Bible is translated into Klingon: Klingons are an alien race from the planet Kronos in the Star Trek fantasy universe) as “Daq tagh joH’a’ chenmoHta’ chal je tera”.
6. The original text of Russian writer Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace in Russian and French contains about 460 thousand words. The English translation has about 560 thousand words.
7. The term “black hole” for a collapsed star in French literally translates as a difficult period.
8. It is most commonly translated from English, French, German, Russian and Italian.
9. The languages it is most commonly translated into are German, French, Spanish, English, and Japanese.