in 120 languages

Japanese translation: 全世界１２０か国語で

19:24 Oct 19, 2007

English to Japanese translations [Non-PRO]
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English term or phrase: in 120 languages

I love you ecards *in 120 langages*.
and similarly:
Translations of I love you *in 220 languages*
Should I just replace 120 with 220?

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Japanese translation:全世界１２０か国語で

Explanation:
To be honest, your qurestion is not very clear.
What you mean by:
**Should I just replace 120 with 220?**?
This is not a translation question.

However, I thought you are trying to find out "Whether I should address broader language population, by saying 220 instead of 120 different languages?"

My answer is straight to original question should be, namely "How to translate **in 120 languages** in Japanese?"

One more note: I do not know there are 220 "official languages" in the world.

In any event, I hope this helps.

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Note added at 1 day55 mins (2007-10-20 20:20:41 GMT) Post-grading
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Thank you for your info. 7000!
I am edified!

Selected response from:

humbird

Grading comment

Thank!
There are about 7000 living languages.
http://www.ethnologue.com/web.asp
but not all are "official". For sure more than 220. For example Inidia has about 13 official languages...
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

5 +1

120の言語で

michiko tsum (X)

4 +1

全世界１２０か国語で

humbird

Discussion entries: 2

Answers

23 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

120の言語で

Explanation:
This is basically same as humbird-san's answer. It may sound a little more, hmmm, linguistics(?). You can also add 世界中の at the beginning.

世界各国120の言語で愛を伝えるeカード

Or something like that.

michiko tsum (X)
Canada
Local time: 15:18
Works in field
Native speaker of: Japanese
PRO pts in category: 12

29 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +1

全世界１２０か国語で

humbird
Native speaker of:

Japanese,

English
PRO pts in category: 20

Grading comment

Thank!
There are about 7000 living languages.
http://www.ethnologue.com/web.asp
but not all are "official". For sure more than 220. For example Inidia has about 13 official languages...

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