Ever heard of these before? Malayalam, Oromo, Pinyin…?
To date, thanks to the support and prayers of donors around the world, New Life Ministries has printed Bibles and Gospel literature in over 80 languages, totaling over 200 million copies!
Of those 80 languages, here is a sampling of just a few of them:
In the southwestern part of India, Malayalam is one of the local languages with a very unique character set.
In the region where Ethiopia borders Kenya, such groups as the Oromo and the Welge speak this interesting language. Although they also used Romanized characters nowadays, they still use the Ge’ez script as shown in the photo from their Bible (above).
The above is handwritten Mongolian, taken from a portion of the Book of Genesis. The text is written and read vertically from right to left.
In order to help with pronunciation of Chinese, this New Testament has Romanized wordings, called Pinyin, over the Chinese characters. This is also very helpful for people learning Chinese.
What do you think? Interesting right?
For each of the projects that New Life Ministries does for these languages, we are working with fellow ministries for the printing. It is our great hope that we may be able to provide the needed Bibles for “every tribe and tongue” in their heart languages so they may come to know the Good News of Jesus. If you want to help support a Bible printing project with New Life Ministries, check the link below!
*This article was originally published in Japanese in the March 2015 edition of the Tsunagari.
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