Fast FactsLanguage Statistics
- Total Number of Languages in the World – 6,909
Ethnologue (SIL Intl., 2009)
- Total Languages with Complete Bibles – 469
- Total Languages with New Testaments – 1,231
- Total Languages with some Scripture – 2,527
“Scripture Language Report 2011 Statistical Summary”
(UBS, March 2011, at www.biblesociety.org)
- Total Languages yet without Scripture – 2,682
Statistically, this means approximately one out of three languages or one out of twelve people do not have access to the Bible in their main ”heart language!”
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