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The full Bible has been translated into 636 languages. Parts have been translated into 3,223 languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_translations https:

The full Bible has been translated into 636 languages. Parts have been translated into 3,223 languages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_translations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_translations A convenient feature of Bible translations is that the text is truly bilingual. Every sentence is numbered (verses) and lines up nicely with the corresponding verse in other languages. Using the Chinese/English Bible text to improve a Chinese dictionary and teach me Chinese is one of the main motivations behind Pingtype. https://pingtype.github.io https://pingtype.github.io

Mediterraneo10 9y ago
Using the Bible for language learning is perhaps better than nothing, but one does get frustrated by the very limited lexicon used within. For many languages, even those with few speakers, there are often resources available that better prepare you to use the language in a 20th/21st century context, not the Middle East of 2000 years ago+. As for Bible translations matching up perfectly, one has to consider that a great many New Testament translations are in fact translations of translations, and this process has sometimes introduced some striking innovations. A good example of this are the Bible translations produced for Russia’s minority peoples by the Stockholm Institute for Bible Translation. Most of these are translations from Russian, not Greek, and in using them you have to be aware of quirks introduced by that intermediary layer.