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Abstract:
Table detailing languages and sources of all translations of Bahá'í scripture available in almost 100 languages on Bahaiprayers.net.
Notes:
Updated September 2020. Note February 2024: Currently there are 108 languages. The overview on this page has not (yet) been updated with the additional languages and numbers.

See also Bahá'í Reference Libraries in Multiple Languages.

Crossreferences:

Overview of Translations of Bahá'í Texts on bahaiprayers.net

A. Bolhuis, compiler

2020

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# Region Language (Original) Language (English) Prayers Prayers with
audio or video		 Hidden Words Hidden Words with
audio or video		 Gleanings Kitáb-i-Íqán Kitáb-i-Aqdas Tablets of Bahá'u'lláh Prayers and Meditations Days of Remembrance Some Answered Questions TOTAL
1 Worldwide English English 377 118 153 103 x x x x x x x 11
2 Asia-Pacific ភាសាខ្មែរ  Khmer 5                     1
3 Africa አማርኛ  Amharic (Ethiopia) 38   153                 2
4 Africa Afrikaans South African 116   153                 2
5 Americas Alaskan Native Alaskan Native 10 10                   2
6 Americas American Indian American Indian 28                     1
7 Asia-Pacific Azərbaycan Azerbaijani  215 23 153     x         x 5
8 Asia-Pacific Bahasa Indonesia Indonesian 128   153                 2
9 Asia-Pacific Bahasa Malaysia Malaysian  170   153                 2
10 Asia-Pacific Bidayuh Malaysia and Indonesia 148                     1
11 Europe Bosanski Bosnian  110                     1
12 Americas Canadian Indigenous Canadian Indigenous 27 2                   2
13 Europe Català Catalan  219                     1
14 Europe Česky Czech  20   153                 2
15 Asia-Pacific Chamorro Chamorro  29                     1
16 Africa Chichewa Chichewa 61                     1
17 Europe Corsica Corsican 17                     1
18 Europe Cymraeg Welsh 69   153                 2
19 Europe Dansk Danish 167   153                 2
20 Europe Deutsch German 241 5 153   x x x x x   x 9
21 Europe Eesti Estonian 63   153                 2
22 Europe Español Spanish 246 6 153 6 x x x x x x x 11
23 Worldwide Esperanto Esperanto 56   153                 2
24 Europe Euskara Basque  25                     1
25 Asia-Pacific Fiji Fijian 45                     1
26 Asia-Pacific Filipino Filipino 166 1 153         x   x   5
27 Europe Føroyar Faroese 4                     1
28 Europe Français French 186 8 153 2 x x x x   x x 10
29 Europe Frysk Frisian 25                     1
30 Africa Hausa Hausa (Nigeria) 62   153                 2
31 Asia-Pacific Hawaiian Hawaiian 6                     1
32 Europe Hrvatski Croatian 63                     1
33 Asia-Pacific Iban Iban (Sarawak) 75   71                 2
34 Europe Irish Irish 2   153                 2
35 Europe Íslenska Islandic 210 1       x           3
36 Europe Italiano Italian 153 2 153 1 x x x x x x x 11
37 Americas Kalaallisut Greenlandic (Inuit) 90   153                 2
38 Asia-Pacific Kiribati Kiribati 94   153                 2
39 Africa Kiswahili Kiswahili 29   153 1               3
40 Americas Kreyol Ayisyen Haitian Creole 172   153                 2
41 Europe Latviešu Latvian 116       x             2
42 Europe Letzebuergesch Luxembourgish 10   153                 2
43 Europe Lietuvių  Lithuanian 21   153                 2
44 Africa Luganda Luganda (Ugandin regional) 74   153                 2
45 Europe Magyar Hungarian 140   153   x x           4
46 Asia-Pacific Malagasy Madagascar 95                     1
47 Europe Malti Maltese 61   153                 2
48 Asia-Pacific Māori Māori 78 2                   2
49 Asia-Pacific Marshallese Marshallese 21                     1
50 Europe Montenegrin Montenegrin 19                     1
51 Africa Namibia Namibia (Khoekhoegowab,
Oshikwanyama, Otjiherero, Rugciriku)		 88                     1
52 Europe Nederlands Dutch 233   153   x x x x       6
53 Europe Norsk Norwegian 115   153             x   3
54 Americas Papiamentu Papiamento 10                     1
55 Asia-Pacific Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea 35   153                 2
56 Europe Polski Polish 217 7 153   x x x x     x 8
57 Europe Portugus (BR) Portuguese (Brazilian) 284 4 153 3 x x x x x   x 10
58 Europe Română Romanian 225   153   x x x x       6
59 Europe Sámi Sami 19   153                 2
60 Asia-Pacific Samoan Samoan 18 1                   2
61 Africa Sesotho Sesotho 20                     1
62 Europe Shqip Albanian 109   153 1 x x x         6
63 Europe Slovenščina Slovenian  150                     1
64 Europe Slovensky Slovak  130   153   x x x         5
65 Americas Sranan Tongo Surinamese 30                     1
66 Europe Srpski српски Serbian 66 1                   2
67 Europe Suomi Finnish 127 2 153     x       x   5
68 Europe Svenska Swedish 116 1 153 2 x x   x   x x 9
69 Asia-Pacific Tiếng Việt Vietnamese 110   153   x x x         5
70 Asia-Pacific Turkmene Turkmen 113 64                   2
71 Asia-Pacific Tuvalu Tuvalu 266   153                 2
72 Asia-Pacific Vanuatu Vanuatu 64                     1
73 Europe ελληνικά  Greek 211   153 1 x             4
74 Europe Беларускі  Belarusian 22                     1
75 Europe български  Bulgarian 167   153                 2
76 Asia-Pacific Кыргыз  Kyrgyz 139                     1
77 Asia-Pacific Монгол хэл  Mongolian 121   153 1               3
78 Asia-Pacific Русский  Russian 145 4 153   x x x       x 7
79 Europe Україна  Ukrainian 26                     1
80 Asia-Pacific հայերեն  Armenian 152   153                 2
81 Asia-Pacific  اُردُو  Urdu 138 1 153                 3
82 Middle East العربية  Arabic 136 21 153 2 x x x x     x 9
83 Middle East فارسی  Persian 248 44 153 10 x x   x     x 8
84 Asia-Pacific नेपाली  Nepali 127                     1
85 Asia-Pacific हिंदी  Hindi 169 3 153                 2
86 Asia-Pacific বাংলা  Bengali 79   153     x x       x 5
87 Asia-Pacific ગુજરાતી  Gujarati 63                     1
88 Asia-Pacific தமிழ்  Tamil 217   153   x             3
89 Asia-Pacific తెలుగు  Telegu 32   153             x   3
90 Asia-Pacific ಕನ್ನಡ  Kannada 97   153                 2
91 Asia-Pacific മലയാളം  Malayalam 146                     1
92 Asia-Pacific ภาษาไทย  Thai 171                     1
93 Asia-Pacific 한국어  Korean 182   153   x             3
94 Asia-Pacific 日本語  Japanese 237 1 153 1 x x x       x 8
95 Asia-Pacific 简体中文   Simplified Chinese 193   153 1   x   x       5
96 Asia-Pacific 繁體中文   Traditional Chinese 185                     1
Total 10550 332 8486 135 22 23 16 14 5 9 14

Row Labels Sum of TOTAL
Spanish 11
Italian 11
English 11
Portuguese (Brazilian) 10
French 10
Swedish 9
Arabic 9
German 9
Polish 8
Persian 8
Japanese 8
Russian 7
Dutch 6
Romanian 6
Albanian 6
Filipino 5
Bengali 5
Simplified Chinese 5
Finnish 5
Slovak  5
Azerbaijani  5
Vietnamese 5
Greek 4
Hungarian 4
Tamil 3
Telegu 3
Urdu 3
Mongolian 3
Kiswahili 3
Norwegian 3
Islandic 3
Korean 3
Canadian Indigenous 2
South African 2
Samoan 2
Haitian Creole 2
Alaskan Native 2
Hausa (Nigeria) 2
Estonian 2
Turkmen 2
Armenian 2
Hindi 2
Danish 2
Luganda (Ugandin regional) 2
Bulgarian 2
Luxembourgish 2
Irish 2
Malaysian  2
Sami 2
Maltese 2
Serbian 2
Māori 2
Amharic (Ethiopia) 2
Esperanto 2
Czech  2
Iban (Sarawak) 2
Greenlandic (Inuit) 2
Papua New Guinea 2
Indonesian 2
Tuvalu 2
Latvian 2
Lithuanian 2
Welsh 2
Kannada 2
Kiribati 2
Nepali 1
Traditional Chinese 1
Malaysia and Indonesia 1
Frisian 1
Croatian 1
Papiamento 1
Malayalam 1
American Indian 1
Chichewa 1
Bosnian  1
Marshallese 1
Khmer 1
Montenegrin 1
Basque  1
Madagascar 1
Gujarati 1
Surinamese 1
Belarusian 1
Fijian 1
Kyrgyz 1
Thai 1
Catalan  1
Corsican 1
Hawaiian 1
Ukrainian 1
Sesotho 1
Vanuatu 1
Chamorro  1
Namibia 1
Faroese 1
Slovenian  1
Grand Total 293

Row Labels Sum of Prayers
Asia-Pacific 4474
Tuvalu 266
Japanese 237
Tamil 217
Azerbaijani  215
Simplified Chinese 193
Traditional Chinese 185
Korean 182
Thai 171
Malaysian  170
Hindi 169
Filipino 166
Armenian 152
Malaysia and Indonesia 148
Malayalam 146
Russian 145
Kyrgyz 139
Urdu 138
Indonesian 128
Nepali 127
Mongolian 121
Turkmen 113
Vietnamese 110
Kannada 97
Madagascar 95
Kiribati 94
Bengali 79
Māori 78
Iban 75
Vanuatu 64
Gujarati 63
Fijian 45
Papua New Guinea 35
Telegu 32
Chamorro  29
Marshallese 21
Samoan 18
Hawaiian 6
Khmer 5
Europe 4404
Portuguese (Brazilian) 284
Spanish 246
German 241
Dutch 233
Romanian 225
Catalan  219
Polish 217
Greek 211
Islandic 210
French 186
Bulgarian 167
Danish 167
Italian 153
Slovenian  150
Hungarian 140
Slovak  130
Finnish 127
Swedish 116
Latvian 116
Norwegian 115
Bosnian  110
Albanian 109
Welsh 69
Serbian 66
Croatian 63
Estonian 63
Maltese 61
Ukrainian 26
Basque  25
Frisian 25
Belarusian 22
Lithuanian 21
Czech  20
Sami 19
Montenegrin 19
Corsican 17
Luxembourgish 10
Faroese 4
Irish 2
Africa 488
South African 116
Namibia 88
Luganda 74
Hausa 62
Chichewa 61
Amharic 38
Kiswahili 29
Sesotho 20
Worldwide 433
English 377
Esperanto 56
Middle East 384
Persian 248
Arabic 136
Americas 367
Haitian Creole 172
Greenlandic 90
Surinamese 30
American Indian 28
Canadian Indigenous 27
Alaskan Native 10
Papiamento 10
Grand Total 10550
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