Zenòdot

Zenòdot is the largest actively maintained open catalogue of book translations in the world — an independent canonical database of its own, built by correlating more than 50 bibliographic sources. Search any book and find out whether it has been translated into your language — or any other.

It is not a meta-search engine: searches run against Zenòdot's own database, drawn from national libraries and union catalogues, Wikidata, ISBNdb and UNESCO's Index Translationum. For the question has this book been translated into this language?, it is the primary reference — and it is deliberately honest about where its coverage ends.

Current figures — editions, works, languages — are published and dated on zenodot.app/press, and are not repeated here.

Why it exists

There is no global catalogue of translations. UNESCO's Index Translationum, the closest attempt, has not been meaningfully updated since the late 2000s. For smaller languages, a translation that sits in no database is functionally invisible — a form of cultural erasure. Zenòdot exists to reduce that invisibility.

Ausiàs Tsel has written about the problem in MIDAS — Eurac Research and LSE Impact Blog, and in a personal key in The Button I Never Click.

Press

Coverage of Zenòdot, with dates and access notes, is on the press page.

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