Population:               912,090
Language family:      Northeast Caucasian
Region:                       Central Dagestan, Northern Caucasus  
Capital:                       Makhachkala
Religion:                     Sunni Muslim
Bible portions to date: John (1979), Mark (1996), Luke/Acts (2000), Proverbs (2005, 2007), NT (2008), Genesis (2011), Ruth/Esther/Jonah (2017), 1-2 Samuel/1-2 Kings (2021), Daniel (2023).

NT translation: New Testament was published in 2008. In 2025 we plan to start the revision of the NT.
OT translation: We are planning to publish the whole Pentateuch in 2025.

 

Your donation of 20 USD will allow us to print and deliver to the reader 5 copies of Pentateuch in the Avar language.

IBT has published a special English-language book dedicated to its silver anniversary of being a fullfledged Russian organization. The present volume is a compilation of IBT newsletters dealing with our various Bible translation projects, written by IBT staff member Tanya Prokhorova over the course of the past decade based on her interviews with project workers. The golden thread that runs through all of these newsletters is Tanya’s focus on the human face of IBT. It is not only about producing a good translation of the Bible into many languages (although this is undoubtedly a key part of the process), but about serving people – many people, different people, from a large variety of backgrounds, who happen to speak many different languages. In other words, the final goal of our work is human-centric, not book-centric. And this translation work is not only done for people, but by people – once again, many people, different people, from a large variety of backgrounds.