An alphabetical roll call of every tongue scattered at Babel — and the pledge to see every one of them read the Besuras HaGeulah in its own words by Shavuos June 2, 2033.
WE PRAY IN THE NAME OF THE OYBERSHTER THAT ELOKIM HAAV WILL REVERSE THE WORLD’S BABEL, AS THE RUACH HAKODESH DID ON SHAVUOS 33 C.E., FOR THEY SAID, “HOW IS IT THAT EACH OF US HEARS THEM (PREACHING THE BESURAS HAGEULAH) IN OUR OWN NATIVE LANGUAGE?”
Acts 2:8
We believe Linda, the V.P. of AFII, received her first kidney transplant on Shavuos (Pentecost) 2011 so she might live another 22 years — until Shavuos June 2, 2033 — to see this universal reversal of Babel: all 7,000+ languages given their Triglot, every word “Triglot unpacked,” so that anyone can pronounce and understand every word of the Bible in these tongues — in the dominant global lingua franca English.
7,132 languages listed · 3,066 (43%) still await a first published word of Scripture
This list can read like an endless roll call of unfamiliar syllables — 7,132 names with nothing to hold onto. So before you scroll it, meet just one of them properly: Abenaki, Eastern, entry #13, still marked underserved below. Two companion pages turn this one name into an actual people, an actual grammar, and an actual verse of Scripture worked line by line.
Suppose you are interested in finding out about a certain language with a view to possibly volunteering to help its translation team, or even starting your own translation team. Let’s use Rabha, #5369 below, as an example. Here’s what you could do to see what work, if any, has been done for that language.
rah). Type another three-letter code and press the button to point them at your language.
Nearly every website below uses the ISO 639-3 code rather than the language name. On this page, the code appears in small type after most language names in the list below, and you can type a code into the “Find a language” box to jump to it. You can also look the language up on Wikipedia, where the code appears in the box on the right.
While you’re there, read about dialects. A Bible in one dialect may not serve speakers of another.
For Rabha: the code is rah. Wikipedia lists three dialects, Rongdani, Maitori and Kocha, and notes that Kocha is not understood by speakers of the other two.
Two directories are organized by language code:
Type [language name] language Bible translation New Testament into any search engine. Directories can lag behind events, so don’t skip this step.
For Rabha, this search finds a scanned copy of the 1999 Rabha New Testament (Don Bosco Publications, Guwahati) and a news report that the complete Rabha Bible was released in Goalpara, Assam, in November 2025, naming the whole translation team.
Many language communities are more oral than literate. Global Recordings Network lists its recordings by language code.
For Rabha: audio-visual Bible lessons and short audio Bible stories, free to download.
unfoldingWord’s Door43 hosts open-licensed translation work:
data: [], nothing is published there yet.For Rabha, Door43 is empty. That does not mean Rabha has no Bible, as step 3 showed. It means the Rabha Bible is not yet openly licensed and available in the digital tools translators share.
Scripture is translated by communities, not websites. Note the translators and publishers named in steps 2 to 5, and search for local churches and associations.
For Rabha: rabha.org, built by the Rabha Baptist Convention in English and Rabha.
For Rabha: a complete Bible (2025) in the Rongdani dialect, audio evangelism resources, and no open digital text on Door43. Good questions for a volunteer: are speakers of the Kocha dialect served? Could the Bible become available digitally or in audio? And what does the local church itself say it needs?