Article November 20, 1989 Issue

From the American Bible Society

"Scripture languages," those languages in which at least one book of the Bible has been published since Gutenberg printed the first Bible in Mainz over 500 years ago, increased in number to 1,907 in 1988, according to the American Bible Society.

Of these, 23 languages were recorded for the first time.

Complete Bibles are now being reported in [310] languages, including [such recent additions as] Karo Batak, spoken by some 600,000 people who live on the shores of Lake Toba in Sumatra; ekeGusii, the language of more than six percent of the population of Kenya; and Cuzco Quechua, a dialect spoken by descendants of the Incas in Peru.

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