On Monday, we had the joy of visiting the International Linguistics Center, where I volunteered for 9 months after Dwayne's death and before our marriage, and Carl volunteered 2 months as we "courted" and decided that we felt sure it was God's will for us to marry. While visiting the campus, we got to see many friends, ate at the Dining Hall, walked around the RV park, re-visited "the wedding venue", and generally enjoyed renewing our memories!
Unfortunately, we didn't think to take any pictures, other than one I took regarding the current state of scripture translation -- but one of the things I particularly wanted is an update on scripture translation, so maybe that is most appropriate!
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| This information comes from https://www.wycliffe.net/resources/statistics/ |
You know how I love data...
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There are 7378 total languages in the world; the world population is 7.9 billion people.
Languages with Scripture:
- 3495 languages have "some" scripture, representing 7.04 billion people
- 717 languages have a complete Bible - 5.75 billion people
- 1582 languages have a complete New Testament (some also have Old Testament portions) - 830 million people
- 1196 languages have some translated Bible portions - 457 million people
Languages with no scripture:
- 828 languages have work in progress - 67.6 million people
- 1892 languages need translation (or preparatory work) to begin - 145 million people
- No scripture, but not in need of translation:
- 1119 languages are not vital enough to plan translation work - 2.8 million people
- 44 language communities are served by Scripture in another language - 4.6 million people
Bible translation need:
- 1.51 billion people, speaking 6661 languages, do not have a full Bible in their first language.
- 145 million people, speaking 1892 languages, still need translation work to begin:
- Africa - 558 languages, 16 million people
- Americas - 119 languages, 2.4 million people
- Asia - 751 languages, 124 million people
- Europe - 59 languages, 2.3 million people
- Pacific - 405 languages, 0.43 million people
Bible translation in progress
- 2217 languages in 147 countries with active translation or preparatory work begun - 1.1 billion people
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Vanay shared with us how God used situations in the pandemic to bring about progress in Bible translation. Even though some workers were required to relocate away from their translation area, they could continue working remotely due to electronic tools being available. Some local translators were not going to their regular jobs, so they could spend more time doing translations. God continues to bring His word to all the peoples of the world, and we get to participate with Him!
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