Cartoon celebrity Tintin now speaks Tahitian
Title -- 4092 TAHITI: Cartoon celebrity Tintin now speaks Tahitian
Date -- 19 June 2003
Byline -- None
Origin -- Pacific Media Watch
Source -- Oceania Flash, fbp@igc.org 19/6/3
Copyright -- SPC
Status -- Unabridged
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CARTOON CELEBRITY TINTIN NOW SPEAKS TAHITIAN
PAPE'ETE (Oceania Flash/Pacific Media Watch): Tintin, the world famous character created in 1929 by Belgian cartoonist Hergé (whose real name was Georges Rémi) is now fluent in Tahitian language, te Reo Maohi, local media reported.
Although Tintin, a globe-trotting reporter by trade, already spoke some 57 languages and has sold some 200 million albums of his 23 "Les aventures de Tintin", he did not speak Tahitian... until now.
His first go at a Pacific language will be on one of his most famous adventures, set in the Middle East, "The Crab with the Golden Claws".
This now becomes "Te Pa'apa'a ävae pirú, 'El fa'ahohoni" in Tahitian language and the first issue is set to be published later this month at Casterman publishing house, Belgium. The new development stems from the initiative of Corinne Mac Kittrick, who is a translator employed by French Polynesia's government translation services.
She told local media that she had the idea when she noticed that it was difficult to find an attractive enough cartoon in the indigenous language, for teaching purposes to her children.
Herge's widow is expected to travel to French Polynesia for the official launch of the album, of which five thousand copies will initially be printed and mostly disseminated in French Polynesia.
In French Polynesia, the two official languages are French and the indigenous Reo Maohi (Tahitian).
Tintin's adventures have already been published in the following languages: Afrikaans, Alguère, Alsacien, Asturian, Arabic, Basque, Bengali, Bernerdütsch, Brazilian, Breton, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chechian, Chinese (Mandarin, PRC), Corsican, Corean, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, FarOer, Finnish, French, Frisian, Galician, Gallo, Gaumais, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Iranian, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Latin, Luxembourg, Malayan, Norwegian, Occitan, Picardian, Polish, Portuguese, Retoroman, Russian, Serbocroatian, Singalese, Slowakian, Spanish, Swedish, Taiwanese, Thai, Tibetian, Turkish, Vietnamese and Welsh.
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