Harry Potter and the Bewildering Chinese Abominations
A basic understanding of the two Chinese writing systems (Traditional and Simplified) and how they are...
Category: Investigations
Harry Potter and the Ever-Transfigured Arabic Translation
It is my pleasure to welcome a guest contributor to potterglot.net, Baldur Babbling, the author of...
Harry Potter and the Morphing Arabic Translator
These days I’m scared to take a close look at any of the translations! It seems...
Harry Potter and the Translation Demotion
I announced a new unauthorized Philosopher’s Stone translation last year, by one Li Ronghua. That may...
Su Nong—Translator of the Simplified Chinese Philosopher’s Stone—Doesn’t Exist!
I’m currently falling down another translation rabbit hole—Chinese this time—and I came across a really interesting...
Harry Potter and the Ukrainian Orphanage
There’s an oft-repeated claim that in the Ukrainian translation of Harry Potter, Hogwarts is an orphanage,...
Harry Potter and the Double ISBNs
As I was writing about Bloomsbury’s broken promise to publish a Scottish Gaelic translation, I started...
Harry Potter and the Gàidhlig Let-Down
If you search for the ISBN 978-1-58234-681-6 or 1-58234-681-X you will find a plethora of sites—everything...
Harry Potter and the Myanmar Market (Part 2)
Part 1 When I was introduced to the unauthorized Myanmar translations of the Harry Potter series...
Was the first Latvian Philosopher’s Stone Unauthorized?
Recently a rumour has cropped up online that Harijs Poters un Filozofu akmens, the Latvian Philosopher’s...
