NEW YORK — An international fellowship of Bible societies has registered the translation of the Bible into 24 additional languages in 2001.
The total number of languages in which Books of the Bible are available now stands at 2,287, according to the annual tally by the United Bible Societies.
The 2001 edition of the “Scripture Language Report” is based on Scriptures received during the year in the libraries of the American Bible Society and the British and Foreign Bible Society.
The complete Bible has been published in 392 languages, with eight languages reported for the first time in the last year. Four of the eight are African languages, two are Asian languages and two are languages spoken in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific islands.
The annual report details the number of languages and dialects in which the complete Bible, the New Testament and individual books have been published since the Gutenberg Bible appeared in the 1450s.
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