The Bible is available in 909 languages from here:
Most Translated Website
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OrphanCrow
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steve2
The Bible is available in 909 languages from here:
https://www.bible.com/versions
But for JW.org printing their own religious garbage in that many languages is still some way off at the current time.
From the official JW website"
The New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures "has been published in whole or in part in over 120 languages. More than 200 million copies have been distributed". Given the Bible is available elsewhere in 909 languages, jw.org's Bible is available in just over 13% of those languages - and note that some of the languages are only for "part" of the Bible.
It is very revealing that, whilst their literature is printed on over 700 languages (which lags behind the Adventists 947 languages), the JW.org Bible is available in whole or part in only 120 languages.
So much for their claims to focus on the Bible!
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David_Jay
What does it matter how many languages their website is translated into?
Other religions don't make their members all over the world rely on just one website or on the Internet for that matter. So their "pride" in the number of languages means nothing.
The largest Christian denomination, the Roman Catholic Church, does not used the web as a major means to educate their members or the public. That is still done at the parish level, with real people, real classes, and with real books you don't have to download (but you can get them in e-reader format).
They print news papers, magazines, have many television networks (not channels, networks), radio networks, radio stations, tv stations, and several streaming networks.
Every language group is divided into episcopalities or national groups, each one of these has their own website (for example, for USA Catholics it is USCCB.org), and each of these is divided in to diocesan territories (with their own websites, newspapers, magazines, often with their own radio and tv stations) further more divided into parishes and parish groups on the neighborhood level.
All the myriad of language groups get severed directly from the parish roots on up. They don't rely on just one central website. Could you imagine the 1.2 billion Catholics around the world all using just one central website? Is there a computer network that could handle that type of traffic, supplying missals, hymnals, educational books, study materials, lectionaries, prayer books, copies of the Liturgy of the Hours, etc., etc., etc., to every Catholic on the planet like the JWs lean on their little website for the comparatively tiny dumbed-down crumbs they offer? Don't forget Bibles on top of all that, for each language group in the world. The Catholic Church also serves every single language group in the world, far more than the JWs.
And what about those countries, language groups, cultures and areas that don't use computers or the Internet? The RCC doesn't need them. They still do all their world ministry without having to go to one central website. And no member of the RCC on the planet has to buy an iPad or e-reader to go to Mass, read a Bible, or pray to God. And you don't have to donate for any literature either. If you are poor the RCC will feed you, clothe you, medicate you, and not require you to join or even believe in God to benefit from their ministry, let alone tell you to go to any website for more info.
And according to JWs, the Catholic Church is under the control of Satan the Devil. I guess Jehovah decided to phone it all in on a website becuase he couldn't compete or be bothered.
"Our website has been translated in more languages than any other!" So?
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sparrowdown
This is an area WT actually excels at. Translating bullshit into bullshittier bullshit and then translating that bullshit into to a language or in the mysterious case of the missing languages a bullshit language. -
David_Jay
Applause and an "amen" to that, Sparrowdown.
It doesn't matter how many languages they translate things into. Translating "crap" into Spanish still leaves you with "caca."
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Beth Sarim
**This is an area WT actually excels at. Translating bullshit into bullshittier bullshit and then translating that bullshit into to a language or in the mysterious case of the missing languages a bullshit language**
This may account for so many foreigners to learn a second language.
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leaving_quietly
So their "pride" in the number of languages means nothing.
To us, perhaps not. To them, it's a fulfillment of this verse:
And I saw another angel flying in midheaven, and he had everlasting good news to declare to those who dwell on the earth, to every nation and tribe and tongue and people. - Rev 14:6
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Beth Sarim
leaving_quietly
''So their "pride" in the number of languages means nothing.
To us, perhaps not. To them, it's a fulfillment of this verse:
And I saw another angel flying in midheaven, and he had everlasting good news to declare to those who dwell on the earth, to every nation and tribe and tongue and people. - Rev 14:6''
You see, this is exactly how they sucker all the time into believing propaganda!!
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steve2
So the good old Adventists beat JWs hands down by well over two hundred more languages.....Just saying....
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Village Idiot
The good news is that most of those languages won't have too many speakers.
The bad news is that there are not likely to be any "apostate" websites in those languages. I know that Spanish has apostate websites but does anyone know if there are any in Thai or Swahili?