Languages

August 2008 – Statistics Update

Michael Hart has sent out his monthly newsletter for August 2008 and during this last month there have been a few nice milestones from the various PG projects. First up, Greg Newby has provided us with an update on the top languages found at gutenberg.org. Currently there are over 100 languages available in the archives […]

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Chinese eBook Collection is on the move!

Chinese Moves Up! The Chinese collection of eBooks at Project Gutenberg has been increasing steadily and there are now over 300 titles in the archive. The PG Chinese eBook collection has now taken over 5th place in the language lists (excluding English.) Congratulations to everyone involved in producing this collection.

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Top Project Gutenberg Languages for Feb-2008

Michael Hart mailed a ‘Top Listing’ for the various eBook languages posted to the Project Gutenberg archives, with the totals for each language included. As to be expected, English comes in at the top, French a clear second with over one thousand eBooks posted to the archives. With the great number of Chinese texts posted […]

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The 500th German Language Book Posted To Project Gutenberg!

The German-language e-book producing community and the German Team at Distributed Proofreaders proudly present the 500th German e-book at Project Gutenberg! We hope you enjoy it, as well as all the other German books we’ve posted so far, and you will be looking forward to the next 500 books as much as we do! (Die […]

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International Year Of Languages

“Acting without a vote, the Assembly, also recognizing that the United Nations pursues multilingualism as a means of promoting, protecting and preserving diversity of languages and cultures globally, emphasized the paramount importance of the equality of the Organization’s six official languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish).” Note the lack of languages from India […]

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First Cebuano Language eBook on Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg of the Philippines is happy to announce the release of the first Cebuano Ebook, Larawan: Mga Sugilanon ug Dinalídalí, a collection of short stories by Vicente Rama (1887-1956). Originally, these stories where published in Cebu in 1921. The stories give a humorous glimpse back into the life in Cebu in the early twenties […]

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