World population
6.5 billion
Programs in progress in languages without
adequate Scripture 1,640
Languages currently spoken in the world
6,912 (current Ethnologue, 15th edition)
Languages that need Bible translation
2,529
Languages that have Scripture
2,377; of these, 422 have an adequate
Bible, 1,079 have an adequate New
Testament, and 876 have at least one
book of the Bible.
Number of people without any Scripture
272 million
1 comment:
....terrible, and I keep thinking, "Wow, we badly need translators." Unfortunately, this song from my childhood keeps running through my head:
"Everybody Said (But Nobody Did)"
By Acapella
Everybody said that anybody could do
The important things somebody should do
Everybody knows that anybody could do
All the good things that nobody did
Well the preacher came to me and said what I ought to do
If I wanted to make my religion true
He'd do it himself but he really didn't have the time
He said that the duty was mine
Everybody said that anybody could do
The important things somebody should do
Everybody knows that anybody could do
All the good things that nobody did
Well the deacon came by and said give me a hand
If you want to be going to the promised land
Here is something that I don't have time to do
So I better give it to you
Everybody said that anybody could do
The important things somebody should do
Everybody knows that anybody could do
All the good things that nobody did
Well I'm too busy so I tell everybody
The work's got to get done by somebody
It could be done by anybody
But nobody, nobody, nobody did
Everybody said that anybody could do
The important things somebody should do
Everybody knows that anybody could do
All the good things that nobody did
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Languages... most likely not my calling... but, uh, somebody... should... do it.
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