Bible translations into the languages of Europe

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Since Peter Waldo's Franco-Provençal translation of the New Testament in the late 1170s, and Guyart des Moulins' Bible Historiale manuscripts of the Late Middle Ages, there have been innumerable vernacular translations of the scriptures on the European continent, greatly aided and catalysed by the development of the printing press, first invented by Johannes Gutenberg in the late 1430s.

Year Language Notes
1466 German Luther Bible
1471 Italian Bible translations into Italian
1478 Catalan translated into Catalan by Bonifaci Ferrer, known as the Valencian Bible
1530 French Bible translations into French
1541 Swedish Bible translations into Swedish
1550 Danish Bible translations into Danish
1569 Spanish Bible translations into Spanish
1571 Basque Joanes Leizarraga, a Catholic priest who joined the Reformation, translated the New Testament into Basque
1588 Welsh Bible translations into Welsh
1590 Hungarian Bible translations into Hungarian
1602 Irish Bible translations into Irish
1611 English Authorized King James Version
1637 Dutch Bible translations into Dutch
1681 Portuguese A first edition of his New Testament translation was printed in Amsterdam in the year 1681
1694 Latvian Bible translations into Latvian
1735 Lithuanian Bible translations into Lithuanian
1739 Estonian Bible translations into Estonian
1756 Slovak Bible translations into Slovak
1827 Breton Bible translations into Breton
1876 Russian Bible translations into Russian
1934 Serbian Bible translations into Serbian

Albanian

Arpitan

Avar

Bashkir

Basque

Belarusian

Breton

Bulgarian

Catalan

Chuvash

Cornish

Corsican

The translation of the Bible into Corsican is the work of Christian Dubois (2005).[1]

Croatian

Czech

Danish

Dutch

English

Estonian

Faroese

Finnish

French

German

Greek

Hungarian

Icelandic

Irish

Italian

Kalmyk

Kashubian

Komi

Kumyk

Latvian

Lithuanian

Macedonian

Maltese

Manx

Norwegian

Norman

Occitan

Polish

Portuguese

Romani

Romanian

Romansh

Russian

Scots

Scottish Gaelic

Serbian

Slovak

Slovene

Sorbian

Spanish

Swedish

Tatar

Turkish

Ukrainian

Welsh

Yiddish

References