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Burmese
Burmese is spoken by around 22,000,000 people:
21,553,000 in Myanmar,
231,000 in Bangladesh,
around 216,000 elsewhere.
 

Publishing History

Part of the Bible was published for the first time in 1815.
The New Testament was first published in 1832.
The complete Bible was first published in 1835.
This Page
This shows the first few verses from John's Gospel in the Judson version, first published in 1890 by ABMU, (American Baptist Missionary Union), Rangoon. This page is taken from a Bible by United Bible Societies, 1993.