"When I gave him a copy of the New Testament in Uzbek he took it, touched it with his lips and forehead and finally held it close to his heart."

 "I have a holy book
which shows the way to
God in my language."

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]