How to find non-english words used in enlish language novel

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edited November 2024 in Books and Courses Forum

Is there a search method to find and list all of the non-english language words used in an otherwise english language novel? 

The author uses latin, greek, and gaelic words and phrases, in addition to english.

Thanks for any assistance!

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  • MVP Posts: 54,945

    See TIP of the day: Search foreign languages - French, German, Spanish ...  which works for any language that is tagged by language.

    Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

  • Member, Community Manager, Logos Employee Posts: 5,487

    If you are a Logos Now or Logos Cloud subscriber, you can also use the Concordance tool to show a list of all the words in the book that are marked as any particular language.

    Andrew Batishko | Logos software developer

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    MJ. Smith, Thank you for the TIP referral. I spotted something of interest in the topic string that briefly got my hopes up: italicized search.  However, it was disclosed that searches for italicized words are not supported.

    I have not experienced any problems finding search results for specific foreign language words. BTW all of the foreign language words appear to be transliterated.

    I am trying to search the novel for all of the words in Latin; then Greek: then Gaelic. These searches only turned up the words "Latin", "Greek", and "Gaelic." I am obviously still on a steep learning curve for Searches. Basically, I am hoping for a search of the entire book for words that would not appear in the Collins English Dictionary.

    Ultimately, I'll find them all as I go through the book from beginning to end[:)]

  • Member Posts: 311 ✭✭

    Andrew Batishko (Faithlife) posted

    "If you are a Logos Now or Logos Cloud subscriber, you can also use the Concordance tool to show a list of all the words in the book that are marked as any particular language."

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    Andrew,

    Awesome! The Concordance tool worked for the supported languages.

    Thank you!

  • MVP Posts: 54,945

    Here's a screen shot of Andrew's suggestion.

    Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

  • MVP Posts: 54,945

    ah I see you tried it while I was posting.

    Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

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