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in more than 3,324 languages (including an increasing number of
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s), including complete Old or New Testaments in 2,189 languages, and the complete text of the Bible (
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, in October 2017, 3,312 languages had access to at least a book of the Bible, including 1,121 languages with a book or more, 1,521 language groups with access to the New Testament in their native language and 670 the full Bible. It is estimated by Wycliffe Bible Translators that translation may be required in 1,636 languages where no work is currently known to be in progress. They also estimate that there are currently around 2,584 languages which have active Bible translation projects (with or without some portion already published).
(Figures correct as of Oct 2017.)


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Bible translations into the languages of Africa The Bible, or portions of it, have been translated into over 1,000 languages of Africa. Many of these are indexed by the Forum of Bible Agencies International, Forum of Bible AgenciesFind.Biblesite and available online in text and audio form, as pr ...
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Bible translations into the languages of China The Bible has been translated into many of the languages of China besides Chinese language, Chinese. These include major minority languages with their own literary history, including Korean language, Korean, Mongolian language, Mongolian, Central T ...
* Bible translations into the languages of Europe * Bible translations into the languages of France * Bible translations into the languages of Hawaii * Bible translations into the languages of India * Bible translations into the languages of Indonesia and Malaysia *
Bible translations into Native American languages Biblical translations into the indigenous languages of North and South America have been produced since the 16th century. Algonquian languages Abenaki Mark, translated by Peter Wzokhilain, was printed in 1830. It was republished in 2011 by J ...
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Bible translations into Oceanic languages Bible translations into Oceanic languages have a relatively closely related and recent history. Language family Oceanic The Oceanic languages tree also encompasses other languages, such as Fijian language, Fijian. Pama-Nyungan and other Indigeno ...
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Bible translations into the languages of the Philippines The Bible has been translated into multiple Philippine languages (with regional languages colloquially referred to as dialects), including Filipino language, based on the Tagalog (the major language), the national language of the Philippines. Ta ...
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Bible translations into the languages of Russia Traditionally Russia used the Old Church Slavonic language and Slavonic Bible, and in the modern era Bible translations into Russian. The minority languages of Russia usually have a much more recent history, many of them having been commissioned or ...
* Bible translations into the languages of Taiwan *
Bible translations into fictional languages Bible translations into constructed languages that were created as part of a fictional setting include: Quenya Quenya is a fictional language devised by J. R. R. Tolkien. Various parts of the Bible have been translated into Neo-Quenya, an attem ...


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* Afrikaans:
Bible translations into Afrikaans Early history Arnoldus Pannevis proposed an Afrikaans Bible translation in 1872 in a letter to a newspaper. The translation of the Bible which was used in the Dutch Reformed Church at the time was the Statenbijbel, and Afrikaans was not regar ...
* Ainu:
Bible translations into Ainu The first biblical text in Ainu language appeared in 1887, when a tentative edition of 250 copies of Matthew 1-9, translated from the Greek with the aid of the Revised Version, by John Batchelor John Calvin Batchelor (born April 29, 1948) is an ...
* Albanian:
Bible translations into Albanian The history of Bible translations into Albanian can be divided into early and modern translations. Early Translations (Albanian Renaissance Translations) The Buzuku Translations, 1554-1555 Albanian priest Gjon Buzuku translated selected Scriptur ...
* Aleut:
Bible translations into Eskimo-Aleut languages The Bible (from Koine Greek , , 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures that are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, and many other religions. The Bible is an anthologya compilation of texts of a v ...
* Amharic:
Bible translations into Amharic Although Christianity became the state religion of Ethiopia in the 4th century, and the Bible was first translated into Ge'ez at about that time, only in the last two centuries have there appeared translations of the Bible into Amharic. Abu Rumi ...
* Amis: Bible translations into the languages of Taiwan * Apache (Southern Athabaskan):
Bible translations into Apache The Athabaskan language family is divided into the Northern Athabaskan, Pacific Coast Athabaskan and Southern Athabaskan groups. The full Bible has been translated into two Athabaskan languages, and the complete New Testament in five more. Another ...
* Arabic:
Bible translations into Arabic Translations of the Bible into Arabic are known from the early Christian churches in Syria, Egypt, Malta and Spain. Some of these translations are from Syriac (the Peshitta), Coptic or Latin. There are many New Testament translations or portions ...
* Aramaic:
Bible translations into Aramaic Bible translations into Aramaic covers both Jewish translations into Aramaic (Targum) and Christian translations into Aramaic, also called Syriac (Peshitta). Jewish translations Aramaic translations of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) played an importan ...
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Targum A targum ( arc, תרגום 'interpretation, translation, version') was an originally spoken translation of the Hebrew Bible (also called the ''Tanakh'') that a professional translator ( ''mǝturgǝmān'') would give in the common language of the ...
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Peshitta The Peshitta ( syc, ܦܫܺܝܛܬܳܐ ''or'' ') is the standard version of the Bible for churches in the Syriac tradition, including the Maronite Church, the Chaldean Catholic Church, the Syriac Catholic Church, the Syriac Orthodox Church, the ...
* Armenian:
Bible translations into Armenian The Armenian Bible is due to Saint Mesrob's early-5th-century translation. The first monument of Armenian literature is the version of the Holy Scriptures. Isaac, says Moses of Chorene, made a translation of the Bible from the Syriac text about 4 ...
* Assamese: Bible translations into the languages of India * Auca, Waodani, Huaorani:
Bible translations into Native American languages Biblical translations into the indigenous languages of North and South America have been produced since the 16th century. Algonquian languages Abenaki Mark, translated by Peter Wzokhilain, was printed in 1830. It was republished in 2011 by J ...
* Australian Kriol: Bible translations into Australian Kriol * Avar:
Bible translations into the languages of Russia Traditionally Russia used the Old Church Slavonic language and Slavonic Bible, and in the modern era Bible translations into Russian. The minority languages of Russia usually have a much more recent history, many of them having been commissioned or ...
* Azerbaijani:
Bible translations into Azerbaijani The earliest known example of a Bible translation into Ajem-Turkic (also known as Middle Azeri) was made in the 17th century. A copy of it is being stored in the Uppsala University, Sweden. The first modern Azerbaijani translation by Mirza Farrukh ...
* Basque: Bible translations into Basque * Batak: Bible translations into the languages of Indonesia and Malaysia * Belarusian:
Bible translations into Belarusian The first translation into Belarusian was by Francysk Skaryna. He printed his first book titled ''The Psalter'', in the Old Belarusian recension of Church Slavonic on August 6, 1517 in Prague. He continued his printing work in Vilnius. The cul ...
* Bemba, Cibemba:
Bible translations into the languages of Africa The Bible, or portions of it, have been translated into over 1,000 languages of Africa. Many of these are indexed by the Forum of Bible Agencies International, Forum of Bible AgenciesFind.Biblesite and available online in text and audio form, as pr ...
* Bengali:
Bible translations into Bengali Nathaniel B. Halhead of the East India Company published a Bengali grammar for British officials in 1776 to aid interaction with the local Bengali population. William Carey of Serampore translated the Bible into the Bengali language and published ...
* Bisaya-Inunhan:
Bible translations into the languages of the Philippines The Bible has been translated into multiple Philippine languages (with regional languages colloquially referred to as dialects), including Filipino language, based on the Tagalog (the major language), the national language of the Philippines. Ta ...
* Blackfoot:
Bible translations into Native American languages Biblical translations into the indigenous languages of North and South America have been produced since the 16th century. Algonquian languages Abenaki Mark, translated by Peter Wzokhilain, was printed in 1830. It was republished in 2011 by J ...
* Breton: Bible translations into Breton * Bulgarian:
Bible translations into Bulgarian The royal Tetraevangelia of Ivan Alexander is an illuminated manuscript Gospel Book in middle Bulgarian, prepared and illustrated in 1355–1356 for Tsar Ivan Alexander of the Second Bulgarian Empire. The manuscript is regarded as one of the mo ...
* Burmese:
Bible translations into Burmese There are many different translations of the Bible into Burmese language, Burmese (also known as the Myanmar language). Judson (BJB) Adoniram Judson made the first complete translation of the Bible from the original languages into Burmese langua ...
* Buryat : Bible translations into Buryat * Cakchiquel:
Bible translations into Native American languages Biblical translations into the indigenous languages of North and South America have been produced since the 16th century. Algonquian languages Abenaki Mark, translated by Peter Wzokhilain, was printed in 1830. It was republished in 2011 by J ...
* Cambodian: Bible translations into Cambodian * Carrier: Bible translations into Athabaskan languages * Catalan: Bible translations into Catalan * Caucasian Albanian (Old Udi):
Bible translations into Caucasian Albanian Caucasian Albanian (also called Old Udi, Aluan or Aghwan) is an extinct member of the Northeast Caucasian languages. It was spoken in Caucasian Albania, which stretched from current day south Dagestan to Azerbaijan. Linguists believe it is an ...
* Cheyenne:
Bible translations into Native American languages Biblical translations into the indigenous languages of North and South America have been produced since the 16th century. Algonquian languages Abenaki Mark, translated by Peter Wzokhilain, was printed in 1830. It was republished in 2011 by J ...
* Cherokee: Bible translations into Cherokee * Chinese:
Bible translations into Chinese Bible translations into Chinese include translations of the whole or parts of the Bible into any of the levels and varieties of the Chinese language. The first translations may have been made as early as the 7th century AD, but the first printed tr ...
* Choctaw:
Bible translations into Native American languages Biblical translations into the indigenous languages of North and South America have been produced since the 16th century. Algonquian languages Abenaki Mark, translated by Peter Wzokhilain, was printed in 1830. It was republished in 2011 by J ...
* Chope, Tshopi:
Bible translations into the languages of Africa The Bible, or portions of it, have been translated into over 1,000 languages of Africa. Many of these are indexed by the Forum of Bible Agencies International, Forum of Bible AgenciesFind.Biblesite and available online in text and audio form, as pr ...
* Comanche:
Bible translations into Native American languages Biblical translations into the indigenous languages of North and South America have been produced since the 16th century. Algonquian languages Abenaki Mark, translated by Peter Wzokhilain, was printed in 1830. It was republished in 2011 by J ...
* Coptic:
Coptic versions of the Bible There have been many Coptic versions of the Bible, including some of the earliest translations into any language. Several different versions were made in the ancient world, with different editions of the Old and New Testament in five of the dial ...
* Cornish:
Bible translations into Cornish Translations of parts of the Bible into Cornish have existed since the 17th century. The early works involved the translation of individual passages, chapters or books of the Bible. The first full translation of the Bible into the Cornish langu ...
* Corsican: The translation of the Bible into the
Corsican language Corsican (''corsu'' , ; full name: ''lingua corsa'' , ) is a Romance language constituted by the continuum of the Italo-Romance dialects spoken on the Mediterranean island of Corsica (France) and on the northern end of the island of Sardinia (Ita ...
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Bible translations into creole languages The creole languages include Dutch-based creole languages, English-based creole languages and French-based creole languages. Major Bible translations into creole languages include: Gullah The effort to translate the Bible into Gullah, a creole lan ...
* Croatian:
Bible translations into Croatian Bible translations into Croatian started to appear in fragments in the 14th century. Efforts to make a complete translation started in the 16th century. The first published complete translations were made in the 19th century. 14th to 18th cent ...
* Czech:
Bible translations into Czech The Czech literature of the Middle Ages is very rich in translations of Biblical books, made from the Vulgate. During the 14th century all parts of the Bible seem to have been translated at different times and by different hands. The oldest tra ...
* Dakota:
Bible translations into Native American languages Biblical translations into the indigenous languages of North and South America have been produced since the 16th century. Algonquian languages Abenaki Mark, translated by Peter Wzokhilain, was printed in 1830. It was republished in 2011 by J ...
* Danish: Bible translations into Danish * Dene Suline / Chipewa: Bible translations into Athabaskan languages * Dutch: Bible translations into Dutch * Dzongkha: Bible translations into Dzongkha * English:
List of English Bible translations The Bible has been translated into many languages from the biblical languages of Aramaic, Greek, and Hebrew. The Latin Vulgate translation was dominant in Western Christianity through the Middle Ages. Since then, the Bible has been translated in ...
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English translations of the Bible Partial Bible translations into languages of the English people can be traced back to the late 7th century, including translations into Old and Middle English. More than 100 complete translations into English have been written. In the United S ...
* Esperanto:
Bible translations into Esperanto The initiator of Esperanto, L. L. Zamenhof, translated the entire Hebrew Bible into Esperanto. His translation has been much admired by Esperantists and is widely held up as a model or exemplar for other Esperanto authors and translators. Other tra ...
* Estonian: Bible translations into Estonian * Finnish: Bible translations into Finnish * Filipino:
Bible translations into the languages of the Philippines The Bible has been translated into multiple Philippine languages (with regional languages colloquially referred to as dialects), including Filipino language, based on the Tagalog (the major language), the national language of the Philippines. Ta ...
* French: Bible translations into French * Gagauz:
Bible translations into the languages of Russia Traditionally Russia used the Old Church Slavonic language and Slavonic Bible, and in the modern era Bible translations into Russian. The minority languages of Russia usually have a much more recent history, many of them having been commissioned or ...
* Geʽez:
Bible translations into Geʽez Bible translations into Geʽez, an ancient South Semitic language of the Ethiopian language area, Ethiopian branch, date back to the 6th century at least, making them one of the world's oldest Bible translations. The oldest translation of part of ...
* Georgian: Bible translations into Georgian * German:
Bible translations into German German language translations of the Bible have existed since the Middle Ages. The most influential is Luther's translation, which established High German as the literary language throughout Germany by the middle of the seventeenth century and which ...
* Gilbertese:
Bible translations into Oceanic languages Bible translations into Oceanic languages have a relatively closely related and recent history. Language family Oceanic The Oceanic languages tree also encompasses other languages, such as Fijian language, Fijian. Pama-Nyungan and other Indigeno ...
* Gothic:
Gothic Bible The Gothic Bible or Wulfila Bible is the Christian Bible in the Gothic language spoken by the Eastern Germanic (Goths, Gothic) tribes in the early Middle Ages. The translation was allegedly made by the Arianism, Arian bishop and missionary U ...
* Greek:
Bible translations into Greek While the Old Testament portion of the Bible was written in Hebrew, the New Testament was originally written in Koine Greek. The Greek language, however, has several different dialects or denominations. This required several different translations d ...
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Septuagint The Greek Old Testament, or Septuagint (, ; from the la, septuaginta, lit=seventy; often abbreviated ''70''; in Roman numerals, LXX), is the earliest extant Greek translation of books from the Hebrew Bible. It includes several books beyond th ...
* Gujarati: Bible translations into the languages of India * Gullah:
Bible translations into creole languages The creole languages include Dutch-based creole languages, English-based creole languages and French-based creole languages. Major Bible translations into creole languages include: Gullah The effort to translate the Bible into Gullah, a creole lan ...
* Gwich'in (Kutchin): Bible translations into Athabaskan languages * Haida:
Bible translations into Native American languages Biblical translations into the indigenous languages of North and South America have been produced since the 16th century. Algonquian languages Abenaki Mark, translated by Peter Wzokhilain, was printed in 1830. It was republished in 2011 by J ...
* Haitian Creole:
Bible translations into creole languages The creole languages include Dutch-based creole languages, English-based creole languages and French-based creole languages. Major Bible translations into creole languages include: Gullah The effort to translate the Bible into Gullah, a creole lan ...
* Hakka: Bible translations into the languages of Taiwan * Hawaiian: Bible translations into Polynesian languages * Hawaiian Pidgin English:
Bible translations into Hawaii Pidgin There are biblical translations into Hawaiian and Hawaii Pidgin which are the two main languages of Hawaii. Hawaiian A Hawaiian language translation was completed by New England Christian missionaries including Reverends Hiram Bingham, Asa Thu ...
* Hebrew:
Bible translations into Hebrew Bible translations into Hebrew primarily refers to translations of the New Testament of the Christian Bible into the Hebrew language, from the original Koine Greek or an intermediate translation. There is less need to translate the Jewish Tanakh ( ...
* Hindi:
Bible translations into Hindi and Urdu The modern Hindi language and Urdu language are mutually intelligible in colloquial form, but use different scripts when written, and have mutually intelligible literary forms. The history of Bible translations into Hindi and Urdu is closely linke ...
* Hmong:
Bible translations into the languages of China The Bible has been translated into many of the languages of China besides Chinese language, Chinese. These include major minority languages with their own literary history, including Korean language, Korean, Mongolian language, Mongolian, Central T ...
* Hopi:
Bible translations into Native American languages Biblical translations into the indigenous languages of North and South America have been produced since the 16th century. Algonquian languages Abenaki Mark, translated by Peter Wzokhilain, was printed in 1830. It was republished in 2011 by J ...
* Hungarian:
Bible translations into Hungarian The first Bible translations into Hungarian date from the 15-16th centuries, as do the first Hussite Bible and the Vizsoly Bible.Kristó Gyula - Barta János - Gergely Jenő: Magyarország története előidőktől 2000-ig (History of Hungary from ...
* Icelandic: Bible translations into Icelandic * Igbo:
Bible translations into the languages of Africa The Bible, or portions of it, have been translated into over 1,000 languages of Africa. Many of these are indexed by the Forum of Bible Agencies International, Forum of Bible AgenciesFind.Biblesite and available online in text and audio form, as pr ...
* Ilocano: Bible translations into Ilocano * Indonesian:
Bible translations into Indonesian The first translation of the Bible (''Alkitab'') in the Indonesian language was Albert Cornelius Ruyl's translation of the book of Matthew (1629). Between then and now there have been at least 22 other translations, excluding translations to local ...
* Inupiaq, Inupiat :
Bible translations into Inupiat The complete Bible has been translated into three of the dialects of Inupiat language (Greenland, Labrador and Inuktitut (East Arctic)), the New Testament in two more and portions in another. The Ethnologue lists five major Inuit dialects: Easte ...
* Irish:
Bible translations into Irish Translations of the Bible into Irish were first printed and published in the 17th century: the New Testament, the ''Tiomna Nuadh,'' in 1602, the Old Testament, the ''Sean Thiomna,'' in 1685, and the entire Bible, the ''Biobla'' (Old and New Testame ...
* Italian: Bible translations into Italian * Japanese: Bible translations into Japanese * Jèrriais (Norman): Bible translations into the languages of France * Kalmyk, Oirat: Bible translations into Kalmyk * Kannada:
Bible translations into Kannada The first attempt to translate Bible into Kannada was by the Serampore missionaries and they appear to have it completed by 1809. However this manuscript was lost in the 1812 fire at the Serampore press. Some parts of the Bible were translated int ...
* Kashubian:
Bible translations into Slavic languages The history of all Bible translations into Slavic languages begins with Bible translations into Church Slavonic. Other languages include: East Slavic Old Belarusian An effort to produce a version in the vernacular was made by Francysk Skaryna ( ...
(section Kashubian) * Kazakh: Bible translations into Kazakh * Keres:
Bible translations into Native American languages Biblical translations into the indigenous languages of North and South America have been produced since the 16th century. Algonquian languages Abenaki Mark, translated by Peter Wzokhilain, was printed in 1830. It was republished in 2011 by J ...
* Khmer (Cambodian): Bible translations into Cambodian * Khoekhoegowab (Damara/Nama):
Bible translations into the languages of Africa The Bible, or portions of it, have been translated into over 1,000 languages of Africa. Many of these are indexed by the Forum of Bible Agencies International, Forum of Bible AgenciesFind.Biblesite and available online in text and audio form, as pr ...
* Kikamba language (Kamba):
Bible translations into the languages of Africa The Bible, or portions of it, have been translated into over 1,000 languages of Africa. Many of these are indexed by the Forum of Bible Agencies International, Forum of Bible AgenciesFind.Biblesite and available online in text and audio form, as pr ...
* Konkani:
Bible translations into Konkani The history of Bible translations into the Konkani language begins with Ignazio Arcamone (1615–1683), an Italian Jesuit working in Salcette, Goa was the first to translate parts of the Bible to Konkani language. It was published under the title ...
* Korean: Bible translations into Korean * Koryak:
Bible translations into the languages of Russia Traditionally Russia used the Old Church Slavonic language and Slavonic Bible, and in the modern era Bible translations into Russian. The minority languages of Russia usually have a much more recent history, many of them having been commissioned or ...
* Koyukon: Bible translations into Athabaskan languages * Kurdish: Bible translations into Kurdish * Kyrgyz: Bible translations into Kyrgyz * Ladakhi: Bible translations into Ladakhi * Lao: Bible translations into Lao * Lacandon:
Bible translations into Native American languages Biblical translations into the indigenous languages of North and South America have been produced since the 16th century. Algonquian languages Abenaki Mark, translated by Peter Wzokhilain, was printed in 1830. It was republished in 2011 by J ...
* Lahu:
Bible translations into the languages of China The Bible has been translated into many of the languages of China besides Chinese language, Chinese. These include major minority languages with their own literary history, including Korean language, Korean, Mongolian language, Mongolian, Central T ...
* Latin:
Bible translations into Latin The Bible translations into Latin date back to classical antiquity. Latin translations of the Bible were used in the Western part of the former Roman Empire until the Reformation. Those translations are still used along with translations from Latin ...
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Vetus Latina ''Vetus Latina'' ("Old Latin" in Latin), also known as ''Vetus Itala'' ("Old Italian"), ''Itala'' ("Italian") and Old Italic, and denoted by the siglum \mathfrak, is the collective name given to the Latin translations of biblical texts (both ...
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Vulgate The Vulgate (; also called (Bible in common tongue), ) is a late-4th-century Latin translation of the Bible. The Vulgate is largely the work of Jerome who, in 382, had been commissioned by Pope Damasus I to revise the Gospels u ...
* Latvian:
Bible translations into Latvian The Lutheran pastor Johann Ernst Glück translated the Bible into the Latvian language, which was published in 1694 in Riga. This translation was republished many times, repeatedly re-edited. Most recently a revision was begun in 1931 and print ...
* Lisu:
Bible translations into the languages of China The Bible has been translated into many of the languages of China besides Chinese language, Chinese. These include major minority languages with their own literary history, including Korean language, Korean, Mongolian language, Mongolian, Central T ...
* Lithuanian:
Bible translations into Lithuanian The first known translations of the Bible into the Lithuanian language appeared in the middle of the 16th century following the spread of the Protestant Reformation. The full Protestant Bible was first published in 1735 in Königsberg. The full Ro ...
* Lolcat:
Bible translations into fictional languages Bible translations into constructed languages that were created as part of a fictional setting include: Quenya Quenya is a fictional language devised by J. R. R. Tolkien. Various parts of the Bible have been translated into Neo-Quenya, an attem ...
* Macedonian:
Bible translations into Macedonian The history of Bible translations into Macedonian is connected in its early years with the history of Bible translations into Bulgarian. After the codification of Macedonian language, Macedonian in 1945, in 1952 a liturgical edition of the four ...
* Malagasy:
Bible translations into the languages of Africa The Bible, or portions of it, have been translated into over 1,000 languages of Africa. Many of these are indexed by the Forum of Bible Agencies International, Forum of Bible AgenciesFind.Biblesite and available online in text and audio form, as pr ...
* Malay:
Bible translations into Malay Bible translations into Malay include translations of the whole or parts of the Bible into any of the levels and varieties of the Malay language. Publication of early or partial translations began as early as the seventeenth century although there ...
* Malayalam: Bible translations into Malayalam * Maltese: Bible translations into Maltese * Manchu: Bible translations into Manchu * Manx:
Bible translations into Manx The Bible was translated into the Manx language, a Gaelic language related to Irish and Scots Gaelic, in the 17th and 18th centuries. Early translations The first extant translation of any part of the Bible into the Manx language was by John Phill ...
* Maori:
Bible translations into Oceanic languages Bible translations into Oceanic languages have a relatively closely related and recent history. Language family Oceanic The Oceanic languages tree also encompasses other languages, such as Fijian language, Fijian. Pama-Nyungan and other Indigeno ...
* Marathi:
Bible translations into Marathi The first Marathi translation was made by Vaidyanath Sarma under the supervision of the Serampore missionaries and William Carey at Fort William College. However Carey's translation was found lacking, and was revised by two American missionaries, ...
* Miao:
Bible translations into the languages of China The Bible has been translated into many of the languages of China besides Chinese language, Chinese. These include major minority languages with their own literary history, including Korean language, Korean, Mongolian language, Mongolian, Central T ...
* Micmac:
Bible translations into Native American languages Biblical translations into the indigenous languages of North and South America have been produced since the 16th century. Algonquian languages Abenaki Mark, translated by Peter Wzokhilain, was printed in 1830. It was republished in 2011 by J ...
* Mixtec:
Bible translations into Native American languages Biblical translations into the indigenous languages of North and South America have been produced since the 16th century. Algonquian languages Abenaki Mark, translated by Peter Wzokhilain, was printed in 1830. It was republished in 2011 by J ...
* Mohawk:
Bible translations into Native American languages Biblical translations into the indigenous languages of North and South America have been produced since the 16th century. Algonquian languages Abenaki Mark, translated by Peter Wzokhilain, was printed in 1830. It was republished in 2011 by J ...
* Mongolian:
Bible translations into Mongolian The earliest preserved translation of the Bible into the Mongolian language dates to 1827, but there is a written record of what may perhaps have been a translation existing as early as 1305. Since 1827, numerous other translations have been made. ...
* Navajo:
Bible translations into Native American languages Biblical translations into the indigenous languages of North and South America have been produced since the 16th century. Algonquian languages Abenaki Mark, translated by Peter Wzokhilain, was printed in 1830. It was republished in 2011 by J ...
* Naxi:
Bible translations into the languages of China The Bible has been translated into many of the languages of China besides Chinese language, Chinese. These include major minority languages with their own literary history, including Korean language, Korean, Mongolian language, Mongolian, Central T ...
* Nepali: Bible translations into Nepali * Norwegian: Bible translations into Norwegian * Nubian (Nobiin): Bible translations into Nubian * Chichewa / Nyanja:
Bible translations into the languages of Africa The Bible, or portions of it, have been translated into over 1,000 languages of Africa. Many of these are indexed by the Forum of Bible Agencies International, Forum of Bible AgenciesFind.Biblesite and available online in text and audio form, as pr ...
* Mijikenda (formerly "Nyika"):
Bible translations into the languages of Africa The Bible, or portions of it, have been translated into over 1,000 languages of Africa. Many of these are indexed by the Forum of Bible Agencies International, Forum of Bible AgenciesFind.Biblesite and available online in text and audio form, as pr ...
* Occitan: Bible translations into the languages of France * Ojibwa (Algonquian family, Canada):
Bible translations into Native American languages Biblical translations into the indigenous languages of North and South America have been produced since the 16th century. Algonquian languages Abenaki Mark, translated by Peter Wzokhilain, was printed in 1830. It was republished in 2011 by J ...
* O'odham (Mexico):
Bible translations into Native American languages Biblical translations into the indigenous languages of North and South America have been produced since the 16th century. Algonquian languages Abenaki Mark, translated by Peter Wzokhilain, was printed in 1830. It was republished in 2011 by J ...
* Oriya: Bible translations into Oriya * Oromo:
Bible translations into the languages of Africa The Bible, or portions of it, have been translated into over 1,000 languages of Africa. Many of these are indexed by the Forum of Bible Agencies International, Forum of Bible AgenciesFind.Biblesite and available online in text and audio form, as pr ...
* Oshindonga:
Bible translations into the languages of Africa The Bible, or portions of it, have been translated into over 1,000 languages of Africa. Many of these are indexed by the Forum of Bible Agencies International, Forum of Bible AgenciesFind.Biblesite and available online in text and audio form, as pr ...
* Otjiherero:
Bible translations into the languages of Africa The Bible, or portions of it, have been translated into over 1,000 languages of Africa. Many of these are indexed by the Forum of Bible Agencies International, Forum of Bible AgenciesFind.Biblesite and available online in text and audio form, as pr ...
* Paniya: Bible translations into the languages of India * Pashto: Bible translations into Pashto * Persian:
Bible translations into Persian Bible translations into Persian have been made since the fourth or fifth century, although few early manuscripts survive. There are both Jewish and Christian translations from the Middle Ages. Complete translations of the Hebrew Bible and Greek New ...
* Pipil / Nawat:
Bible translations into Native American languages Biblical translations into the indigenous languages of North and South America have been produced since the 16th century. Algonquian languages Abenaki Mark, translated by Peter Wzokhilain, was printed in 1830. It was republished in 2011 by J ...
* Polish: Bible translations into Polish * Portuguese:
Bible translations into Portuguese Although the biblical themes have been an essential formative substance of the Portuguese culture, composition in that language of a complete translation of the Bible is quite late when compared with other European languages. The beginnings of t ...
* Prekmurje dialect of Slovene:
Bible translations into Prekmurje Slovene The first New Testament in Prekmurje Slovene appeared in 1771: the ''Nouvi Zákon'' of István Küzmics. This was distinct from Bible translations into Slovene, such as that of Miklós Küzmics. Between the 16th and 19th centuries there were few l ...
* Quechua, Runa simi:
Bible translations into Native American languages Biblical translations into the indigenous languages of North and South America have been produced since the 16th century. Algonquian languages Abenaki Mark, translated by Peter Wzokhilain, was printed in 1830. It was republished in 2011 by J ...
* Quenya (fictional):
Bible translations into fictional languages Bible translations into constructed languages that were created as part of a fictional setting include: Quenya Quenya is a fictional language devised by J. R. R. Tolkien. Various parts of the Bible have been translated into Neo-Quenya, an attem ...
* Provençal: Bible translations into the languages of France * Romani: Bible translations into Romani * Romanian : Bible translations into Romanian * Romansh : Bible translations into Romansh * Russian: Bible translations into Russian * Sakha:
Bible translations into the languages of Russia Traditionally Russia used the Old Church Slavonic language and Slavonic Bible, and in the modern era Bible translations into Russian. The minority languages of Russia usually have a much more recent history, many of them having been commissioned or ...
* Sanskrit: Bible translations into the languages of India * Scots (Lallans; Lowland Scots):
Bible translations into Scots To date, the Bible has not been completely translated into Lowland Scots. In 1513-39 Murdoch Nisbet, associated with a group of Lollards, wrote a Scots translation of the New Testament, working from John Purvey's Wycliffite Bible. However, this ...
* Scottish Gaelic (Gàidhlig):
Bible translations into Scottish Gaelic The New Testament was first published in Scottish Gaelic in 1767 and the whole Bible (''Am Bìoball Gàidhlig'') was first published in 1801. Prior to these, Gaels in Scotland had used translations into Irish. Book of Common Order The ''Book of C ...
* Sechwana:
Bible translations into the languages of Africa The Bible, or portions of it, have been translated into over 1,000 languages of Africa. Many of these are indexed by the Forum of Bible Agencies International, Forum of Bible AgenciesFind.Biblesite and available online in text and audio form, as pr ...
* Seneca (Iroquoi):
Bible translations into Native American languages Biblical translations into the indigenous languages of North and South America have been produced since the 16th century. Algonquian languages Abenaki Mark, translated by Peter Wzokhilain, was printed in 1830. It was republished in 2011 by J ...
* Serbian: Bible translations into Serbian * Seri:
Bible translations into Native American languages Biblical translations into the indigenous languages of North and South America have been produced since the 16th century. Algonquian languages Abenaki Mark, translated by Peter Wzokhilain, was printed in 1830. It was republished in 2011 by J ...
* Shawi:
Bible translations into Berber languages The history of Bible translation into the Berber language is fairly recent. The six major Berber language/dialects are spoken by 90% of the total Berber-speaking population: Tashelhit Berber, Kabyle Berber, Central Atlas Tamazight, Riffian Berbe ...
* Shan: Bible translations into the languages of India * Shor:
Bible translations into the languages of Russia Traditionally Russia used the Old Church Slavonic language and Slavonic Bible, and in the modern era Bible translations into Russian. The minority languages of Russia usually have a much more recent history, many of them having been commissioned or ...
* Sinhala:
Bible translations into Sinhala Sri Lanka, as "Ceylon", was conquered by the Portuguese in 1505, who were then followed by the Dutch, who introduced the Reformed Church, then came the British, who under the orientalist and civil servant William Tolfrey (1778?–1817) translated a ...
* Slavonic:
Bible translations into Church Slavonic Translations into Old Church Slavonic The oldest translation of the Bible into a Slavic language, Old Church Slavonic, has close connections with the activity of the two apostles to the Slavs, Cyril and Methodius, in Great Moravia in 864–8 ...
* Slovak: Bible translations into Slovak * Slovene:
Bible translations into Slovene The first translation of a sentence from the Bible ( Mt 25:34) to Slovene appeared in the Freising Manuscripts, dating to the 10th or the 11th century. The versions of the Bible for Slovenes are most closely connected with the activity of the R ...
* Sogdian:
Bible translations into Sogdian Portions of the Bible were translated into the Sogdian language in the 9th and 10th centuries. All surviving manuscripts are incomplete Christian liturgical texts (psalters and lectionaries), intended for reading on Sundays and holy days. It is unkn ...
* Sorbian:
Bible translations into Sorbian Lower Sorbian The oldest Sorbian languages, Sorbian Bible version, that of the New Testament of 1547, is extant in a manuscript in the Royal Library at Berlin. The translator was Miklawš Jakubica, who employed a now-extinct dialect of Lower Sorbian ...
* Sotho:
Bible translations into the languages of Africa The Bible, or portions of it, have been translated into over 1,000 languages of Africa. Many of these are indexed by the Forum of Bible Agencies International, Forum of Bible AgenciesFind.Biblesite and available online in text and audio form, as pr ...
* Spanish:
Bible translations into Spanish Several Spanish translations of the Bible have been made since approximately 700 years ago. Jewish translations Medieval Spanish Jews had a tradition of oral translation of Biblical readings into Spanish, and several manuscript translations we ...
* Swahili:
Bible translations into the languages of Africa The Bible, or portions of it, have been translated into over 1,000 languages of Africa. Many of these are indexed by the Forum of Bible Agencies International, Forum of Bible AgenciesFind.Biblesite and available online in text and audio form, as pr ...
* Swedish:
Bible translations into Swedish There are remarkably few Bible translations into Swedish that have been made before the last two centuries. The Latin common Bible is known to have been used by the Catholic Church during the Christian part of the middle ages, but at least paraphra ...
* Syriac:
Bible translations into Aramaic Bible translations into Aramaic covers both Jewish translations into Aramaic (Targum) and Christian translations into Aramaic, also called Syriac (Peshitta). Jewish translations Aramaic translations of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) played an importan ...
* Tagalog/Filipino:
Bible translations into the languages of the Philippines The Bible has been translated into multiple Philippine languages (with regional languages colloquially referred to as dialects), including Filipino language, based on the Tagalog (the major language), the national language of the Philippines. Ta ...
* Taiwanese: Bible translations into the languages of Taiwan * Tajik:
Bible translations into Persian Bible translations into Persian have been made since the fourth or fifth century, although few early manuscripts survive. There are both Jewish and Christian translations from the Middle Ages. Complete translations of the Hebrew Bible and Greek New ...
* Tamazight, Berber:
Bible translations into Berber languages The history of Bible translation into the Berber language is fairly recent. The six major Berber language/dialects are spoken by 90% of the total Berber-speaking population: Tashelhit Berber, Kabyle Berber, Central Atlas Tamazight, Riffian Berbe ...
* Tamil:
Bible translations into Tamil The history of Bible translations into the Tamil language commences with the arrival of Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg at Tranquebar in 1706.Johann Philipp Fabricius, a German, revised Ziegenbalg's and others work to produce the standard Tamil vers ...
* Tanana, Upper (Alaska):
Bible translations into Native American languages Biblical translations into the indigenous languages of North and South America have been produced since the 16th century. Algonquian languages Abenaki Mark, translated by Peter Wzokhilain, was printed in 1830. It was republished in 2011 by J ...
* Tashelhayt, Shilha language:
Bible translations into Berber languages The history of Bible translation into the Berber language is fairly recent. The six major Berber language/dialects are spoken by 90% of the total Berber-speaking population: Tashelhit Berber, Kabyle Berber, Central Atlas Tamazight, Riffian Berbe ...
* Tatar:
Bible translations into the languages of Russia Traditionally Russia used the Old Church Slavonic language and Slavonic Bible, and in the modern era Bible translations into Russian. The minority languages of Russia usually have a much more recent history, many of them having been commissioned or ...
* Telugu:
Bible translations into Telugu The first translation was by Rev. Benjamin Schulz who translated parts of Bible in the early part of 18th century. The manuscripts were sent to Germany for printing but were not printed. The main translation into the Telugu language was Lyman Jewe ...
* Tewa, New Mexico:
Bible translations into Native American languages Biblical translations into the indigenous languages of North and South America have been produced since the 16th century. Algonquian languages Abenaki Mark, translated by Peter Wzokhilain, was printed in 1830. It was republished in 2011 by J ...
* Thai: Bible translations into Thai * Tibetan: Bible translations into Tibetan * Tlingit: Bible translations into Tlingit * Tongan:
Bible translations into Oceanic languages Bible translations into Oceanic languages have a relatively closely related and recent history. Language family Oceanic The Oceanic languages tree also encompasses other languages, such as Fijian language, Fijian. Pama-Nyungan and other Indigeno ...
* Tsimshian:
Bible translations into Native American languages Biblical translations into the indigenous languages of North and South America have been produced since the 16th century. Algonquian languages Abenaki Mark, translated by Peter Wzokhilain, was printed in 1830. It was republished in 2011 by J ...
* Tulu: Bible translations into the languages of India * Turkish: Bible translations into Turkish * Turkmen: Bible translations into Turkmen * Tuvan:
Bible translations into the languages of Russia Traditionally Russia used the Old Church Slavonic language and Slavonic Bible, and in the modern era Bible translations into Russian. The minority languages of Russia usually have a much more recent history, many of them having been commissioned or ...
* Ukrainian: Bible translations into Ukrainian * Urdu:
Bible translations into Hindi and Urdu The modern Hindi language and Urdu language are mutually intelligible in colloquial form, but use different scripts when written, and have mutually intelligible literary forms. The history of Bible translations into Hindi and Urdu is closely linke ...
* Uyghur: Bible translations into Uyghur * Uzbek: Bible translations into Uzbek * Valencian: Valencian Bible * Vietnamese:
Bible translations into Vietnamese The modern Vietnamese alphabet ''chữ Quốc ngữ'' was created by Portuguese and Italian Jesuit , image = Ihs-logo.svg , image_size = 175px , caption = ChristogramOfficial seal of the Jesuits , abbrevia ...
* Wa: Translation of the Bible into the
Wa language Wa (Va) is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the Wa people of Myanmar and China. There are three distinct varieties, sometimes considered separate languages; their names in ''Ethnologue'' are Parauk, the majority and standard form; Vo (Zhenka ...
. * Wakhi:
Bible translations into the languages of Russia Traditionally Russia used the Old Church Slavonic language and Slavonic Bible, and in the modern era Bible translations into Russian. The minority languages of Russia usually have a much more recent history, many of them having been commissioned or ...
* Wampanoag:
Bible translations into Native American languages Biblical translations into the indigenous languages of North and South America have been produced since the 16th century. Algonquian languages Abenaki Mark, translated by Peter Wzokhilain, was printed in 1830. It was republished in 2011 by J ...
* Welsh:
Bible translations into Welsh Parts of the Bible have been translated into Welsh since at least the 15th century, but the most widely used translation of the Bible into Welsh for several centuries was the 1588 translation by William Morgan, '' Y Beibl cyssegr-lan sef Yr H ...
* Xhosa:
Bible translations into the languages of Africa The Bible, or portions of it, have been translated into over 1,000 languages of Africa. Many of these are indexed by the Forum of Bible Agencies International, Forum of Bible AgenciesFind.Biblesite and available online in text and audio form, as pr ...
* Yiddish: Bible translations into Yiddish * Yoruba:
Bible translations into the languages of Africa The Bible, or portions of it, have been translated into over 1,000 languages of Africa. Many of these are indexed by the Forum of Bible Agencies International, Forum of Bible AgenciesFind.Biblesite and available online in text and audio form, as pr ...
* Yupik languages:
Bible translations into the languages of Russia Traditionally Russia used the Old Church Slavonic language and Slavonic Bible, and in the modern era Bible translations into Russian. The minority languages of Russia usually have a much more recent history, many of them having been commissioned or ...
* Zulu:
Bible translations into the languages of Africa The Bible, or portions of it, have been translated into over 1,000 languages of Africa. Many of these are indexed by the Forum of Bible Agencies International, Forum of Bible AgenciesFind.Biblesite and available online in text and audio form, as pr ...
* Zuñi:
Bible translations into Native American languages Biblical translations into the indigenous languages of North and South America have been produced since the 16th century. Algonquian languages Abenaki Mark, translated by Peter Wzokhilain, was printed in 1830. It was republished in 2011 by J ...


See also

* :Bible translators


References


External links


Find.Bible
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