isiZulu is spoken by 9,140,000 people: 8,778,000 in South Africa, 248,000 in Lesotho, 76,000 in Swaziland, 37,000 in Malawi.
Publishing History
Part of the Bible was published for the first time in 1848.
The New Testament was first published in 1865.
The complete Bible was first published in 1883.
This Page
This shows the first few verses from John's Gospel in the Revised version, first published in 1959 by British & Foreign Bible Society, London. This page is taken from a Bible published in 1997 by Bible Society of South Africa, Roggebaai.