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We hear the same words again and again from the Kaiwá: “Now we can really understand this! We don't understand when people tell us only in Portuguese!”

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Worldwide Bible Translation Statistics 

  • World Population - 6.9 billion [Wycliffe International 2009]

  • Languages spoken in the world - 6,909 [Ethnologue, 16th edition, 2008]

  • Languages with some or all of the Bible - 2,479. Of these, 451 have an adequate Bible; 1,185 have an adequate New Testament; 843 have Scripture portions [UBS 2008]

  • Translation programs in progress in languages without adequate Scripture - 1,990 [Wycliffe International 2009]

  • Languages The Jesus Film has been translated into - 1068 [The Jesus Film 2009]

  • Languages needing Bible translation work to begin - 2,252 representing around 353 million people [Wycliffe International 2009]