807 languages now have the whole Bible. 3,224 still have none of it
The ProgressBible count for 1 September 2026, published by Wycliffe Bible Translators UK, finds translation under way in 4,414 languages and a Bible or New Testament launched almost every three days.
Published · Prepared by the Cinematic Bible Songs editorial team · 2 min read
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The count
As of 1 September 2026, the ProgressBible snapshot counts 7,394 languages in the world. 807 of them have a full Bible. Another 1,844 have a New Testament, and 1,519 more have smaller portions of Scripture. Each language is counted once, in one category only.1
Add those up and 4,170 languages have at least some Scripture. The other 3,224 have none.1 Against the month before, the snapshot shows two more full Bibles, two more New Testaments and five fewer languages with nothing at all.1
The pace
Wycliffe UK puts the rate at almost one Bible or New Testament launched every three days, and on average one new language project beginning every day. Translation is in progress in 4,414 languages.1
The hardest edge of the count is smaller. 1,688 languages have no Scripture and no work in progress. Of those, 543, spoken by about 38 million people, are considered vital enough for their communities to sustain and benefit from translation work.1
One organisation’s year
For a sense of what one year looks like, the United Bible Societies reported in April 2026 that Bible Societies published translations in 100 languages during 2025, used by about 566 million people. For 66 of those languages, spoken by about 32 million people, it was their first translation of Scripture: 13 full Bibles, three New Testaments and 50 portions.2
The same report estimates that 123 million people still have no Scripture in their heart language, and that more than 1.5 billion do not have the full Bible in theirs.2
Having a Bible, and being free to publish it
The count is about languages, but there is a second gap inside languages that already have a Bible. Having a translation is not the same as being free to put all of it in front of a reader. Most modern translations are under copyright, and a site that wants the whole text beside every song and study needs one that is in the public domain or openly licensed. When this site went looking for a Portuguese Bible it could publish whole, it found one, and its own publisher calls it a draft. Translation comes first. Permission comes right after it.
The oldest description of the job is still a good one. When the law was read aloud in Jerusalem after the return from exile, the Book of Nehemiah records that the readers did more than read:
So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
Nehemiah 8:8
Giving the sense is the translator’s whole job, and for 3,224 languages not one published verse of it exists yet.