Some items received are in languages spoken by a very small number of speakers in relatively isolated settings. In such cases printings are small and the publications gain little notice outside the areas for which they are intended. For this reason, some Scriptures are not received at the libraries until a long time after their publication. The statistical summary of printed Scriptures contains all languages and dialects in which Scripture publication has taken place at any time since the invention of printing with movable type in the mid-15th century. The UBS is currently involved in 685 Bible translation projects throughout the world, providing scholarly and technical helps, consultancy, finance, quality control and production facilities.
Photographs relating to several of the above-mentioned language groups are available upon request.