A new effort to translate the Bible into every living language kicked off Saturday with the help of a $50 million anonymous gift to the Orlando-based Wycliffe USA, the world's largest Bible-translation company.
The Orlando Sentinel
ORLANDO, Fla. — A new effort to translate the Bible into every living language kicked off Saturday with the help of a $50 million anonymous gift to the Orlando-based Wycliffe USA, the world's largest Bible-translation company.
The goal of Wycliffe's Last Languages Campaign is to translate the Bible for all of the 2,400 languages that do not have one. Those represent about one-third of all languages spoken and include nearly 200 million people, mostly in three regions: Central Africa, northern India-southern China, and Indonesia-Papua New Guinea.
Worldwide, the nonprofit Bible-translation company has more than 6,400 people working in 93 countries. In 1999, about 1,500 languages had translations of the Bible. That number since has more than doubled to 4,000.
The translations are expected to take at least 17 years to complete.
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