Технік-радіольщик Мокроголовенко (hector_von_kyiv) wrote in linguaphiles,
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Hagrid

A question about various translations of Harry Potter series:

One of the novels' characters — Rubeus Hagrid — «is known for his thick West country accent» (a quotation from Wikipedia).

In Ukrainian translations of the books (also in Ukrainian dubbing of «HP & the Order of Phoenix» movie) Hagrid speaks some sort of Western Ukrainian dialect, most akin to Hutsul; however, dialectal substrate in his speech is not overwhelming, and he can easily be understood by an average reader.

I wonder how this was rendered in other translated versions. AFAIK, for instance, in Russian version, Hagrid speaks just standard Russian with no peculiarities.
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