Pippi Longstocking around the world
Pippi Longstocking is the most famous of Astrid Lindgren's characters worldwide. Stories about Pippi have been translated into 79 languages, and the books have sold over 70 million copies (2024).
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Pippi's 79th language
Pippi Longstocking in Yiddish is the most recent translation, meaning that the books about Pippi Longstocking have now been translated into 79 languages. Among the recently added Pippi languages are Scottish Gaelic, Silesian (a Slavic language spoken in the Silesia region of southwestern Poland and northeastern Czechia), Alsatian (a German dialect spoken in Alsace, a province in northeastern France), Karelian, and Amharic (spoken in Ethiopia, among other places).
This is what Pippi Longstocking is called in different languages
Albanian: Pipi Çorapëgjata
Arabic: جنان ذات الجورب الطويل (Jinān dhāt al-jawrab al-ṭawīl)
Bulgarian: Пипи Дългото Чорапче (Pipi Dalgoto Chorapche)
Chinese: 长袜子皮皮 (Changwazi Pipi)
Czech: Pipi Dlouhá punčocha
Danish: Pippi Langstrømpe
Dutch: Pippi Langkous
English: Pippi Longstocking
Esperanto: Pipi Ŝtrumpolonga
Finnish: Peppi Pitkätossu
French: Fifi Brindacier
Georgian: პეპი გრძელი წინდა (Pepi Grdzeli Tsinda)
German: Pippi Langstrumpf
Greek: Πίπη Φακιδομύτη (Pipi Fakidomýti)
Hebrew: בילבי בת-גרב (Bilbee Bat-Gerev)
Hungarian: Harisnyás Pippi
Icelandic: Lína langsokkur
Indonesian: Pippi Si Kaus Panjang
Italian: Pippi Calzelunghe
Japanese: 長靴下のピッピ (Nagakutsushita no Pippi)
Kurdish: پیپیی گوێرهویدرێژ (Pippi ya Goredirêj)
Norwegian: Pippi Langstrømpe
Persian: پیپی جوراببلند (Pipi Jurâb-boland)
Polish: Pippi Pończoszanka
Russian: Пеппи Длинныйчулок (Peppi Dlinnyjtjulok)
Spanish: Pippi Calzaslargas
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Pippi in Sweden
All the Pippi books in her native Sweden were illustrated by Danish illustrator Ingrid Vang Nyman (1916-1959). The image shows the picture book Känner du Pippi Långstrump? (Do you know Pippi Longstocking?) from 1947.
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Pippi in Germany
This is what Pippi looks like in Germany, The image shows the cover of Pippi plündert den Weihnachtsbaum (Pippi's After-Christmas Party), from the German publisher Oetinger.
What languages has Pippi Longstocking been translated into?
A
Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian
B
Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bokmål, Bosnian, Bulgarian
C
Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech
D
Danish, Dari, Dutch
E
English, Esperanto, Estonian
F
Persian (Farsi), Finnish, French, Faroese
G
Galician, German, Georgian, Greek, Greenlandic
H
Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian
I
Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian
J
Japanese
K
Karelian, Khmer, Kildin Sami, Korean, Kurmanji
L
Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish
M
Macedonian, Marathi, Mongolian, Montenegrin
N
Nepali, Nynorsk
O
Oriya
P
Pashto, Polish, Portuguese
R
Romani, Romanian, Russian
S
Silesian, Serbian, Seselwa (Seychellois Creole), Sinhala, Scottish Gaelic, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Sorani, Spanish, Syriac
T
Tamil, Thai, Tigrinya, Turkish
U
Ukrainian,
W
Welsh
V
Vietnamese
Y
Yiddish
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