Fast FactsLanguage Statistics
- Total Number of Languages in the World – 6,912
Ethnologue (SIL Intl., 2005)
- Total Languages with Complete Bibles – 429
- Total Languages with New Testaments – 1,144
- Total Languages with Portions (such as John or Romans) – 853
- Total Languages with some Scripture – 2,426
“Scripture Language Report 2006 Statistical Summary”
(UBS, Januuary 2007, at www.biblesociety.org)
- Total Languages yet without Scripture – 4,486
Statistically, this means approximately one out of twelve people do not have access to the Bible in their main ”heart language!”
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