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Turkish
Turkish is spoken by 59,000,000 people:
46,278,000 in Turkey,
1,552,000 in Germany,
846,000 in Bulgaria,
120,000 in Cyprus,
10,234,000 elsewhere.
 

Publishing History

Part of the Bible was published for the first time in 1782.
The New Testament was first published in 1819.
The complete Bible was first published in 1827.
This Page
This shows the first few verses from John's Gospel in the Colloquial version, first published in 1989 by Bible Society in Turkey, Isatnbul. This page is taken from a New Testament published in 1996 by Bible Society in Turkey, Istanbul.