Now it is the turn of the Swati-speaking people. The Mapudungun are Chile s largest indigenous population, and they gathered for two days to celebrate the first Mapuche New Testament in March last year. Cameroon saw the publication of two first New Testaments, in Giziga and in Bafia, while Papua New Guinea saw no fewer than six first New Testaments published. New Portions have appeared in 62 languages and four of these have been translations of the deuterocanon, made available for the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches. The Scripture Language Report provides a statistical summary of Scripture publication in languages of the world based on copies of printed texts received at the American Bible Society or at the British and Foreign Bible Society libraries by the end of 1997.
Some Scriptures are in languages spoken by very few people in isolated settings.
This page was last updated on Tuesday, 3rd February 1998.