Scholia™ EVERY LANGUAGE

Scripture for a flourishing world

Every language.

AI-assisted · Human-authorized · Source-transparent

Most of the world’s languages still do not have a whole Bible.

Every figure on this page is taken from a published source, dated, and linked. Where Scholia has not done something yet, this page says so.

Where the languages are

This maps linguistic diversity, not Scripture status. A per-language map of who has what is held in ProgressBible’s licensed dataset and is not published openly, so this page does not draw one. What can be shown is where the world’s languages actually sit — which is where translation work concentrates.

Papua New Guinea — 840 living languagesIndonesia — 710 living languagesNigeria — 530 living languagesIndia — 453 living languagesChina — 306 living languagesMexico — 293 living languagesCameroon — 279 living languagesUnited States — 236 living languagesAustralia — 224 living languagesBrazil — 222 living languages Papua New Guinea 840Indonesia 710Nigeria 530India 453 840453222LIVING LANGUAGES
4,093 of the world’s 7,394 living languages — 55% — are spoken in just ten countries. Circle area is proportional to the number of living languages. Counts: SIL Ethnologue 2024, via Our World in Data. Country outlines: Natural Earth (public domain). Antarctica omitted.

The need, as the data actually reports it

Wycliffe Bible Translators’ global statistics, updated 1 September 2026.

Known languages
7,394
Living spoken & signed
Complete Bible
807
10.9% of languages
Work in progress
4,414
Translation or preparatory work underway
Need work to begin
543
38 million people, where translation is viable and has not started

As of 2026-09-01 · wycliffe.org.uk/statistics · FAQs

Where complete Scripture exists

The 7,394 languages divide into four tiers, ordered from most Scripture to least. The rubric band at the end is the languages with none yet.

Complete Bible — 807 New Testament — 1,844 Portions — 1,519 No Scripture yet — 3,224
The four tiers sum to 7,394. Of the 3,224 languages with no Scripture, 1,688 have no translation work started at all. Wycliffe separately reports that 6,587 languages lack a whole Bible in their first language, and that more than 1 in 5 people worldwide have no complete Bible in the language they think in.
TierLanguagesShare of 7,394
Complete Bible80710.9%
New Testament1,84424.9%
Scripture portions1,51920.5%
No Scripture yet3,22443.6%
— of those, no work started1,68822.8%

Where Scholia stands

Scholia today is one English edition, drafted from tagged Hebrew and Greek and now in final review. The multilingual architecture below is the next step, not a description of what already exists.

Books drafted
66 of 66
Verses drafted
31,219
Renderings, across three registers
93,657
Source texts
Hebrew & Greek
Status
Final review

First complete draft of all 66 books, generated from the project’s own working corpus, 2026-09-18. The edition is in final review; nothing is released as final until that review is complete.

Scholia publishes its reasoning, not only its results. Every rendering carries the decision behind it, and the source it was drawn from, so a reader never has to take a choice on trust.

How Scholia intends to serve other languages

The architecture below is a design, not a running system. It is published so partners can evaluate the approach before anything is built on it.

Concept — not yet built
01
SOURCE
Tagged Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek; morphology, syntax, variants
02
MEANING
Semantic graph; referents, ambiguity, discourse
03
DECISION
Rationale and alternatives, with no hidden interpretive steps
04
LANGUAGE
Grammar, orthography, idiom, community terminology
05
REVIEW
Native-speaker and consultant validation before any release

The principle: English is an output of the graph, not the master source every other language is translated from.

Our vision

A Bible in every language.
A soul in every people.

Technology that serves the Great Commission.