Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>]

On 25/02/2006 21:16, Herman Meester wrote:
> ... I think modern Hebrew is about the only language left
> the Bible has not been translated to!
>   

Sadly this is far from true. According to 
http://www.wycliffe.org/language/statistics.htm,
> *Of the 6,809 languages on earth… /(as of December 2003)/*
> *405*   *Languages with adequate whole Bible*
>
> *1034*  *Languages with adequate New Testament*
There may be some languages with translations of the Hebrew Bible but 
not of the New Testament, but the implication here is that there is no 
translation of the Hebrew Bible into well over 90% of the world's languages.


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