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The Scriptures in 451 Languages

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Oct 23, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 43.

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The Scriptures in 451 Languages

Prof. A. T. Perry, of Hartford Theological Seminary, reckons that at the beginning of the present century there were only 66 languages and dialects in which the Scriptures had been even in part translated; while during this century the number has risen to 451. If this seems a small proportion of the 2,000 known tongues in use, we must not forget that the languages into which the Word is already translated represent about 1,200,000,000 of the existing 1,400,000,000 of earth's population, and all the leading or dominant languages.—Missionary Review of the World.