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Our current outreach goal is to have Bible stories for children in 100 languages. You will find a detailed report below, so you will know which languages to pray for. In this issue, the top 50 languages of the world are listed, showing which languages are still needed. We discovered that almost all the Chinese languages have the same text, even though they are spoken entirely differently. So one translation covers 7 or 8 languages! - and gives access to around one full fifth of the entire world’s population!
We especially need African languages, and some other key ones around the world.
 Thank you for praying and standing with us in these efforts to glorify God and comply with Jeremiah’s great vision (Jer. 22:29)
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1 Mandarin - 935 - China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore Part of Chinese
2 Spanish - 387 - Hispanic America, Spain, United States
3 English - 365 - Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, United Kingdom, United States, South Africa, Singapore
4 Hindi - 295 - India Includes approx. 100 million speakers of other Hindi languages
5 Arabic - 280 - Northern Africa, Middle East
6 Portuguese - 204 - Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, East Timor, Guinea-Bissau, Macao, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe
7 Bengali - 202 - Bangladesh, West Bengal (India), Tripura (India)
8 Russian - 160 - Russia, former Republics of the Soviet Union, Mongolia, Israel
9 Japanese - 127 - Japan
10 Punjabi - 95.5 - Punjab region (Pakistan, India)
11 German - 92.1 - Austria, Belgium (Eupen- Malmedy) Germany, Lux embourg, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, South Tirol (in Italy)
12 Javanese - 82.4 - Java (Indonesia)
13 Wu - 79.5 - Shanghai (China) Part of Chinese
14 Indonesian - 76.9 - Indonesia, Malaysia and Malay
15 Telugu - 75.9 - Andhra Pradesh (India)
16 Vietnamese - 75.6 - Vietnam
17 Korean - 75.5 - North Korea, South Korea
18 French - 73.8 - Belgium (Wallonia, Brus sels), parts of Canada Switzerland,France,
19 Marathi - 72.9 - Maharashtra (India)
20 Tamil - 70.0 - Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu (India)
21 Urdu - 65.6 - Pakistan, India.
22 Turkish - 62.6 - Turkey, Greece, Bul garia
23 Italian - 59.4 - Italy, Switzerland, San Marino
24 Cantonese - 59.2 - Hong Kong and Guang dong.
25 Thai - 56.2 - Thailand
26 Gujarati - 48.9 - Gujarat (India)
27 Jin - 47.6 - Central
28 Min Nan - 46.9 - Southeastern
29 Persian - 45.3 - Iran, Afghanistan, Tadz- hikistan
30 Polish - 40.2 - Poland
31 Pashto - 38.6 - Afghanistan, Pakistan
32 Kannada - 38.1 - Karnataka (India)
33 Xiang - 38.1 - Hunan (China)
34 Malayalam - 37.7 - Kerala (India)
35 Sundanese - 37.5 - Java (Indonesia)
36 Hausa- 34.5 - Nigeria
37 Oriya - 33.4 - Orissa (India)
38 Burmese - 33.2 - Burma
39 Hakka - 30.6 - Southern China
40 Ukrainian - 30.4 - Ukraine
41 Bhojpuri - 28.7 - Bihar (India)
42 Tagalog - 27.5 - Manila and Northern Philippines
43 Yoruba - 27.5 - Nigeria, Benin and Togo
44 Maithili - 26.8 - Bihar (India)
45 Uzbek - 25.6 - Uzbekistan
46 Sindhi - 25.5 - Sindh (Pakistan and ar eas in India)
47 Amharic - 24.8 - Ethiopia
48 Fula - 24.5 - Africa, from Senegal to Sudan
49 Romanian - 24.5 - Romania
50 Oromo - 24.1 - Ethiopia and Kenya
You will see we have 19 of the top 20 languages and 39 of the top 50. We only have 2 of the next 50. We also have 24 other languages, so 76 languages are now covered. Let us praise the Lord and keep on going!
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