Untranslated Languages Awaiting Scripture
THERE are hundreds of languages into which not one word of the Scriptures has yet been translated. In the islands of Polynesia it has been estimated that there are over one hundred languages sufficiently distinct and worthy to warrant the preparation of independent versions. Africa, from the West Coast, going eastward through the great district in the interior, which the native church of Uganda has claimed as the outlet of its own missionary zeal, has a number of languages. South America and Central America have native tribes which are yet entirely without the Word of God. The languages of the Indian empire alone number one hundred and fifty—not mere dialects, but as different from one another at least as French is from Spanish. And over seventy million people, speaking nearly one hundred of these languages, are still without any portion of the Scriptures in their own tongue.—Selected.