Haiku such as "kyo" () may look like two syllables to English speakers but are in fact a single "on" (as well as a single syllable) in Japanese. In 1973, the Haiku Society of America noted that the norm for writers of haiku in English was to use 17 syllables, but they also noted a trend toward shorter haiku. Shorter haiku are very much more common in 21st century English haiku writing. Some translators of Japanese poetry have noted that about 12 syllables in English approximate the duration of 17 Japanese "on". Also in translations four lines is more appropriate for
Haiku in languages other than Japanese published by the Estonian Writers' Union's magazine "Looming" ("Creation"). Estonian haiku have been actively translated into Finnish. Jhinabhai Desai introduced Haiku in Gujarati literature and popularized it. "Soneri Chand Rooperi Suraj" (1967) is the collection of 359 haiku and six Tanka poems. "Kevalveej" (1984) and "Sunrise on the Snowpeaks" are his other haiku collections. Dhiru Parikh published Haiku collection titled "Aagiya" in 1982. Haiku poetry is a relatively new practice in the Arabic literature. It wasn't until 2010 when the first book was published by a Syrian writer Muhammad Adimah containing 1000 haiku translated from Japanese directly. Although most of