<P> Each translation approaches the essence of the original with an individual style and focus . </P> <P> Le Petit Prince is often used as a beginner's book for French - language students, and several bilingual and trilingual translations have been published . As of 2014, it has been translated into more than 250 languages and dialects, including Sardinian, the constructed international language of Esperanto, and the Congolese language Alur, as well as being printed in Braille for blind readers . It is one of the few modern books to have been translated into Latin, as Regulus, vel Pueri soli sapiunt in 1961 by Auguste Haury (1910--2002) and as Regulus in 2010 by Alexander Winkler . In 2005, the book was also translated into Toba Qom, an indigenous language of northern Argentina, as So Shiyaxauolec Nta'a . It was the first book translated into that language since the New Testament . It was also translated to a northern Italian dialect, Vogherese . Anthropologist Florence Tola, commenting on the suitability of the work for Toban translation, said there is "nothing strange (when) the Little Prince speaks with a snake or a fox and travels among the stars, it fits perfectly into the Toba mythology". </P> <P> Linguists have compared the many translations and even editions of the same translation for style, composition, titles, wordings and genealogy . As an example: as of 2011 there are approximately 47 translated editions of The Little Prince in Korean, and there are also about 50 different translated editions in Chinese (produced in both mainland China and Taiwan). Many of them are titled Prince From a Star, while others carry the book title that is a direct translation of The Little Prince . By studying the use of word phrasings, nouns, mistranslations and other content in newer editions, linguists can identify the source material for each version: whether it was derived from the original French typescript, or from its first translation into English by Katherine Woods, or from a number of adapted sources . </P> <P> The first edition to be published in France, Saint - Exupéry's birthplace, was printed by his regular publisher in that country, Gallimard, only after the German occupation of France ended . Prior to France's liberation new printings of Saint - Exupéry's works were made available only by means of secret print runs, such as that of February 1943 when 1,000 copies of an underground version of his best seller Pilote de guerre, describing the German invasion of France, were covertly printed in Lyon . </P>

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