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In 2025 IBT celebrates the 30th anniversary of its work in Russia. The anniversary celebration was held as part of an international conference called "Linguistic Forum 2025: Bible Translation as a Means of Language Preservation and Development. Traditions and New Approaches," organized by IBT and the Institute of Linguistics (RAS). Read more
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From October 7 to 11, 2026, IBT held a workshop in Baku, Azerbaijan on oral Bible translation. The training event brought together team members from the Ahiska, Budukh, Kryz, and Khinalug translation projects.
These peoples live primarily in their own ethnic enclaves within the Caucasus region: the Budukhs, Kryz, and Khinalugs reside in the Quba and Khachmaz districts, as well as in Baku and Sumgait, while the Ahiska Turks (a.k.a. Meskhetian Turks) historically lived in the Ahiska (Meskhetia) region of southwestern Georgia.
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The Institute for Bible Translation (IBT) continues its work towards a complete translation of the Bible in the Kabardian language. As part of this project, digital editions of four Old Testament books have been released: Joshua, Judges, Ezra and Nehemiah.
Kabardian belongs to the Circassian language branch and is spoken by more than 515,000 people in Russia, primarily in Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachay-Cherkessia, Adyghea, and North Ossetia, as well as in the Krasnodar and Stavropol regions.
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The Institute for Bible Translation has published the Old Testament books of Ruth and Jonah in the Hinukh language of Dagestan (southern Russia). These editions continue a series of translations produced via Oral Bible translation methodology. Audio versions of both books had previously been published in the Hinukh Bible app, "Hiriyav Ayatbe."
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IBT has released a new edition, the Zabur (Psalter) in the Nogai language. Previously published by IBT in this language were the books of Ruth, Esther and Jonah (2005), the New Testament (2011), Genesis (2016), Gospel Parables (2016), Proverbs (2017), the Pentateuch (2023), and the Children’s Bible (2025).
The Nogai language belongs to the Kipchak group of Turkic languages. The Nogais are settled over a wide area in the North Caucasus and the Southern Volga region of Russia. According to the 2021 census, over 109,000 people speak Nogai...
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Audio versions of the Old Testament books of Genesis and Exodus in the Kalmyk language have been recorded at the office of the Institute for Bible Translation (IBT) in Moscow. The project brought together Sandzhi Pursyakov, Honored Artist of the Republic of Kalmykia, and Elistina Shinyakaeva, one of IBT’s Kalmyk Bible translation team members. The two alternated in the roles of narrator and text editor.