LANGUAGES IN WORLD
13,500 idioms (mother tongues)
5,000 language clusters
680 language sets
100 language glossozones
10 language macrozones
TYPES OF LANGUAGES
1,000 literary languages
5,000 languages not reduced to writing
6,500 languages with roman script
1,300 languages with non-roman script
350 vehicular megalanguages
2,000 trade languages
3,500 market languages
104 official state languages
WORLD'S MAJOR LANGUAGES
English speakers: 1,320 million
English mother-tongue: 234 million
Chinese speakers: 1.3 billion
Spanish speakers: 543 million
Hindi-Urdu speakers: 492 million
Bengali speakers: 278 million
French speakers: 277 million
LITERACY
3,264 million literates (77% of adults)
991 million nonliterates (23% of adults)
KNOWLEDGE
Expanding at 2 trillion words p.a.
LITERATURE
800 encyclopedias (400 English): 150 general, 650 subject
1.0 million new book titles p.a.
35 billion books printed p.a.
700,000 bookshops
390,000 scientific journals
2.5 million scientific articles p.a.
Universal literature: 65,000 classics translated
CHRISTIAN LITERATURE
1.3 billion literate adult Christians
26,100 Christian book titles p.a.
73,600 new titles incl. devotionals
3.5 billion books printed p.a.
34,500 Christian periodicals
73,500 Christian bookshops
LITERATURE ON "EVANGELIZE"
12,000 new books/articles p.a.
12,800 new items a year on mission
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SCRIPTURE LANGUAGES
Total Scripture languages:
2,600 with complete Books
6,700 with partial Books
1,200 with items in preparation
2,800 in print
4,000 on radio
800 on video
800 on audio
1,500 computerized
700 obsolete (not in use)
PRINT SCRIPTURES (2,600 languages)
400 with whole Bible
1,200 with New Testament
800 with NT only
2,600 with Portion (Gospel)
1,800 with Portion (Gospel) only
600 with New Reader portion
5,100 with selections
800 with New Reader selections
220 Common Language Bibles
200 languages with commentaries
300 languages with concordances
AUDIO SCRIPTURES (4,700 languages)
800 languages with a gospel recording
VIDEO SCRIPTURES (800 languages)
700 languages with "Jesus" film
1.7 billion live viewers of "Jesus" film
4 billion viewers of "Jesus" film since 1978
800 languages with a video Book
RADIO SCRIPTURES (4,000 languages)
1,200 languages with whole Books in use
2,300 languages quoting Scripture passages
IN PREPARATION
Projects underway in 950 languages
First translations: 550 languages
New translations: 200 languages
Revisions: 300 languages
300 Common Bible translations
Catholic participation: 180 more
Radio, audio, video underway: 220
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NO SCRIPTURE LANGUAGES
6,600 with no Scripture or selections
3,000 with no Scripture or Christian literature
2,600 with no Scripture or literature but some Christians
1,000 with no Scripture but some literature
ANNUAL SCRIPTURE DISTRIBUTION
FREE PLACEMENT
400 million free p.a.
SUBSIDIZED DISTRIBUTION
1 billion p.a.
COMMERCIAL SALES
Bibles: 28 million p.a.
NT: 45 million p.a.
470 million commercial scriptures p.a.
TOTAL DISTRIBUTION
Bibles: 537 million p.a.
NT: 120.8 million p.a.
Portions: 323 million p.a.
New Reader: 30 million p.a.
Selections: 4.1 billion p.a.
New Reader Selections: 60 million p.a.
All varieties: 4.6 billion p.a.
LIBRARIES
290,000 public libraries
4.5 billion library volumes
Annual increase 50 million volumes p.a.
200 million library borrowers
16,000 professional religious (Christian) libraries
2,200 large Christian libraries
WORLD COVERAGE BY PEOPLES
Total ethnolinguistic peoples in world: 12,600
Peoples with whole Bible: 5,400
Peoples with NT only: 2,406
Peoples with Portions only: 1,300
Peoples with some Scripture: 9,100
Peoples with no own-language Scripture: 3,500
WORLD POPULATION COVERAGE
Access to Scripture in some understood language: 98.7%
Access to Scripture in mother tongue: 96%
Access to whole Bible in mother tongue: 86%
Languages with any Scripture project: 6,900
Languages with any Christian literature: 1,000
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