A seminar for translators on key biblical terms was held in Baku, Azerbaijan on February 17-20, 2025. Translation team members from 22 oral and written Bible translation projects participated. Most of the projects represented at the seminar are translating Scripture into Caucasian languages, while one of the projects is focusing on the Evenki language of Siberia. Key terms are words that bear a heavy load in conveying the unique cultural and theological meaning of the biblical text...

The Institute for Bible Translation is pleased to announce the publication of a new book, Taurat (the Pentateuch) in the Balkar language. The Balkars are a Turkic people, the indigenous population of the Kabardino-Balkar Republic in the Russian Federation. Closely related to the Karachays living in the neighbouring Karachay-Cherkess Republic, the Balkars speak the Karachay-Balkar language, which belongs to the Turkic language group. According to the 2021 census, the Karachay-Balkar language is spoken by 274,038 people in the Russian Federation.

In late 2024 IBT published the second edition of "Stories about Jesus Christ" by Ivan Shtygashev (1861-1915) in the Shor language. The Shors are a Turkic people living in the south of the Kemerovo region of the Russian Federation. Mountain Shoria, where most Shor speakers live, borders on Khakassia and the Altai Mountains. The administrative centre of Shoria is the town of Tashtagol...

The Institute for Bible Translation has published a series of books in four dialects of the Romani language. The new editions contain translations of selected books from the Old and New Testament: Genesis, Ruth, Jonah and the Gospel of John. The Romani language belongs to the Indo-Aryan group of Indo-European languages, i.e., it is related to the languages of India and Pakistan. Four dialects of Romani that are widespread in Russia were chosen for the translation of the Holy Scriptures: Vlax, Lovari, Crimean and Servi...