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 * //The series has been translated into 67 languages,[2 [|]][58 [|]] placing Rowling among the most translated authors in history.[59 [|]] The first translation was into//** **//American English//** **//, as many words and concepts used by the characters in the novels may have been misleading to a young American audience.[60 [|]] Subsequently, the books have seen translations to diverse languages such as//** **//Ukrainian//** **//,//** **//Hindi//** **//,//** **//Bengali//** **//,//** **//Welsh//** **//,//** **//Afrikaans//** **//,//** **//Latvian//** **//and//** **//Vietnamese//** **//. The first volume has been translated into//** **//Latin//** **//and even//** **//Ancient Greek//** **//,[61 [|]] making it the longest published work in Ancient Greek since the novels of//** **//Heliodorus of Emesa//** **//in the 3rd century AD.<span class="wiki_link_ext">[62 [|]]//**
 * //Some of the translators hired to work on the books were quite well-known before their work on Harry Potter, such as//** <span class="wiki_link_ext">**//Viktor Golyshev//** **//, who oversaw the Russian translation of the series' fifth book. The//** <span class="wiki_link_ext">**//Turkish//** **//translation of books two to seven was undertaken by//** <span class="wiki_link_ext">**//Sevin Okyay//** **//, a popular literary critic and cultural commentator.<span class="wiki_link_ext">[63 [|]] For reasons of secrecy, translation can only start when the books are released in English; thus there is a lag of several months before the translations are available. This has led to more and more copies of the English editions being sold to impatient fans in non-English speaking countries. Such was the clamour to read the fifth book that its English language edition became the first English-language book ever to top the bestseller list in France.<span class="wiki_link_ext">[ //**