Introduction to Bhagavad-gita in 108+ Languages

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Uniting Śrīla Prabhupāda's Multi-lingual Family
Bhagavad-gītā Introduction

Launched on the 1st of February 2015, our Uniting Śrīla Prabhupāda's Multi-lingual Family project to translate Śrīla Prabhupāda's Introduction to his Bhagavad-gita As It Is, in 108 plus languages, is continuing on. 129 translators have already completed 65 languages, with 10 other languages in process. There are 24 eight-minute videos to subtitle and translating them takes no longer than 48 hours of seva.

Our goal is to complete at least 108 languages by the 20th February 2022 - the 56th Anniversary of Śrīla Prabhupāda speaking it. You can watch the videos and read the texts here.

Taking inspiration from the Bible being already translated into 636 languages and parts of the Bible translated into 3,323 languages, we consider it timely to increase the languages in which Srila Prabhupada's teachings exist. And the introduction to the Bhagavad-gita is a good place to start.

Please consider participating by sending us an email. You can make a wonderful offering to Śrīla Prabhupāda and to the world.

You can read about the project, receive some instructions for translators to start serving and see the article by Madhava Smullen published in the ISKCON NEWS on March 12, 2015

This sortable table, listing over 150 languages, shows for each language the number of Videos translated (24 signifies completed), the translators, the number of speakers and where it is spoken.

Status of Videos	Language	Translators	Speakers (Millions)	Where Spoken (Major)
24	Chinese Simplified	Yamuna Jivani / Radhananda	1151	Asia - China, Malaysia, Taiwan
24	Chinese Traditional	Radhananda / Jessica	1151	Asia - China, Malaysia, Taiwan
24	English	Rishab	1000	USA, UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand
24	Spanish	Gandhara	500	Europe - Spain, Mexico, Central and South America
24	Hindi	Suvilasi Madhavi	490	India - North and Central
24	Russian	Irina / Tadit Krishna	277	Europe - Russia, Central Asia
24	Arabic	Mohini Radha	255	Asia - Middle East, Arabia, North Africa
24	Portuguese (Pt)	Nityananda	60	Europe - Portugal, Southern Africa
24	Portuguese (Br)	Gauri Gopika	202	South America - Brazil
24	Bengali	Devadulal Krsna / Deveswara Krsna	215	India - Eastern, Bangladesh
24	French	Marc2	200	Europe - France, Canada, West Africa, Central Africa
24	Malay	Ashok / Subha / Subhadatri / MaliniPriti	175	SE Asia - Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore
24	German	Revati	166	Europe - Germany, Austria, Central Europe
24	Swahili	Omkar Mukund	140	Africa - Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
24	Japanese	Visnu-Priya	132	SE Asia - Japan
24	Farsi (Persian)	Nasrin / Nityangi	110	Asia - Iran, Afghanistan
0	Urdu	open to translate	104	India - Pakistan
4	Punjabi	Krishna dasa	103	India - Pakistan
0	Wu	open to translate	90	Asia - China
24	Vietnamese	Linda / Thi Anh Minh	86	SE Asia - Vietnam, China
24	Indonesian	Gusti	85	SE Asia - Indonesia
24	Javanese	Gusti	98	SE Asia - Indonesia
24	Tamil	Sumangala Laksmi	78	India - South, Sri Lanka, Malyasia
24	Korean	Sue	78	SE Asia - Korean Peninsula
24	Turkish	Lara	75	Asia - Turkey
24	Telugu	KrishnaKishor / VamsiKrishna / RamMurari	74	India - South
24	Marathi	Archana / Milind / Sumeet / Sushil	72	India - West
24	Italian	Mahatseva	62	Europe - Italy, Central Europe
24	Thai	Malini	60	SE Asia - Thailand, Laos
0	Cantonese	open to translate	55	Asia - Southern China
24	Kannada	Prabhupada Vani / Archana / Poora Prema	47	India - South
24	Gujarati	Rukmini Govind	46	India - West, Kenya
24	Polish	Madana Mohana Mohini / Robert	46	Europe - Poland, Central Europe
0	Hausa	open to translate	43	Africa - Cameroon, Ghana, Niger, Nigeria, Sudan
0	Burmese	open to translate	42	SE Asia - Burma, Thailand, Malaysia
0	Pashto	open to translate	40	Asia - Pakistan, Aghanistan
0	Sundanese	open to translate	39	SE Asia - Indonesia
24	Moldovan	Daria & Olga	20	Europe - Moldova, Romania
0	Malayalam	open to translate	38	India - Kerala
24	Ukrainian	Indubhushan	37	Europe - Ukraine
24	Oriya	Sriram / Ritesh / Susovita	33	India - Odisha
0	Marwari	open to translate	31	India - Rajasthan, Pakistan
24	Dutch	Sofiya / Rene	28	Europe - Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname
0	Haryanvi	open to translate	28	India - Haryana, Delhi
24	Romanian	Daniel / Daria / Mircea / Olga / Crenguta	28	Europe - Romania, Moldova
1	Tagalog	Dawn	28	SE Asia - Phillipines
24	Yoruba	Yamuna Jivan	28	Africa - Benin, Nigeria
0	Sindhi	open to translate	26	India - Pakistan India, Singapore
24	Afrikaans	Tianni	23	Africa - South Africa
24	Nepali	VrajendraSuta / Haripriya / Aadarsh / Sunil	17	India - Nepal, Bhutan
0	Singhalese	open to translate	16	Asia - Sri Lanka
24	Hungarian	Peter / Tattva Darshana	15	Europe - Hungary
24	Greek	Namasankirtan	13.1	Europe - Greece, Cyprus
0	Chittagonian	open to translate	13	Asia - Bangladesh
24	Azerbaijani	Gültekin	12	Asia - Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iraq, Iran, Russia, Turkey
3	Akan	Prahlada Bhakta	11	Africa - Ghana, Ivory Coast
24	Czech	Jakub	10	Europe - Czech Republic
0	Zulu	open to translate	10	Africa - South Africa
24	Bulgarian	Manohari / Sarvabhauma	9.1	Europe - Balkans
24	Swedish	Nityananda2	8.7	Europe - Sweden, Finland
0	Xhosa	open to translate	7.9	Africa - South Africa
0	Albanian	open to translate	7.6	Europe - Albania
0	Armenian	open to translate	7	Europe - Armenia
24	Slovak	Jakub	7	Europe - Slovakia, Czech Republic
12	Mongolian	Tulasi Maharani	5.7	Asia - Mongolia, China
24	Danish	Jahnudvipa	5.6	Europe - Denmark, Greenland
24	Croatian	Gaura	5.5	Europe - Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia
24	Hebrew	Elad / Sukhayanti	5.3	Asia - Israel
24	Finnish	Mamata-mayi	5	Europe - Finland
0	Norwegian	open to translate	5	Europe - Norway
0	Northern Sotho	open to translate	4.1	Africa - South Africa
24	Lithuanian	Adre / Yugala Priti / Paulius	3.2	Europe - Lithuania
6	Magar	Laxmi/Lawesh/Sundar	.8	Asia - Nepal, India
24	Macedonian	Tatjana	2.5	Europe - Macedonia
24	Slovenian	Barabara / Domen	2.5	Europe - Slovenia
24	Latvian	Lalita Gopika	1.5	Europe - Latvia
9	Estonian	MadhuriRadhika / Edgar	1	Europe - Estonia
24	Serbo-Croatian	Gaura	19	Europe - Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia
24	Serbian	Akrura / Alakananda / Danijela	10	Europe - Serbia
24	Amharic	Maha Prasad	22	Africa - Ethiopia
0	Assamese	open to translate	16	India - Assam
24	Papiamentu (Papiamento)	Errol	.27	Caribbean - Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao
24	Catalan	Anand / Andreu / Coral / Carles / Elena / Joaquim / JoanGibert / Zoe / Marisa / Montse / Olga / Orland	7.2	Europe - Spain
3	Mauritian Creole	Soma / Vrajendra Nandan	1.3	Africa - Mauritius
24	Fanti	Droupadi	1.9	Africa - Ghana
0	Bashkir	open to translate	1.2	Europe - Russia, Central Asia
0	Basque	open to translate	0.7	Europe - Spain
24	Bosnian	Daulji Krishna	3	Europe - Bosnia
0	Belarusian	open to translate	3.2	Europe - Belarus
0	Chuvash	open to translate	1	Europe - Russia, Central Asia
24	Esperanto	Mahatseva	0.3	Global
0	Ewe	open to translate	3.6	Africa - Ghana
0	Galician	open to translate	2.3	Europe - Spain
3	Welsh	SakyaRasa / Kevin	0.8	Europe - Wales
0	Uzbek	open to translate	27	Asia - Uzbekistan
0	Udmurt	open to translate	0.5	Europe - Russia
0	Twi	open to translate	7	Africa - Ghana
24	Turkmen	Azat / Tulasi / GangaNarayan / YashodaJivan	7	Asia - Turkmenistan
0	Tswana	open to translate	7.7	Africa - South Africa, Botswana
0	Tibetan	open to translate	8	Asia - Tibet
0	Tatar	open to translate	5.3	Asia - Russia
0	Tajik	open to translate	4.5	Asia - Tajikistan
0	Swati	open to translate	3	Africa - South Africa, Swaziland
24	Newari	Lawesh / Poonam / Sundar	1	Asia - Nepal
0	Manipuri	open to translate	1.5	India - Manipur
24	Georgian	Ketie	4.3	Asia - Georgia
0	Icelandic	open to translate	0.3	Europe - Iceland
0	Igbo	open to translate	25	Africa - Nigeria
0	Karakalpak	open to translate	0.4	Asia - Uzbekistan
24	Kazakh	Radheshyama	11	Asia - Kazakhstan
0	Khmer	open to translate	16	Asia - Cambodia
4	Kurdish	Yasin	25	Asia - Iran, Iraq
0	Kyrgyz	open to translate	4	Asia - Kyrgyzstan
0	Lao	open to translate	25	Asia - Thailand, Laos
0	Limburgish	open to translate	1.3	Europe - Netherlands
0	Lingala	open to translate	10	Africa - Congo
0	Berber	open to translate	25	Africa - North Africa
0	Fula	open to translate	25	Africa - West Africa
0	Malagasy	open to translate	18	Africa - Madagascar
0	Sardinian	open to translate	1	Europe - Italy
0	Maltese	open to translate	0.5	Europe - Malta
0	Scots	open to translate	1.5	Europe - Scotland
0	Irish	open to translate	1.3	Europe - Ireland
24	Bhojpuri	Sacisuta Nitai	40	India - Bihar, Uttar Pradesh
0	Dogri	open to translate	5	India - Jammu and Kashmir
0	Kashmiri	open to translate	5.6	India - Jammu and Kashmir
0	Konkani	open to translate	7.4	India - West
5	Maithili	Paramanand / Sacisuta Nitai	34	India, Nepal
0	Santali	open to translate	6.3	India - East
0	Aramaic	open to translate	0.4	Asia - Middle East
0	Chechen	open to translate	1.4	Asia - Chechnya
0	Venda	open to translate	1.7	Africa - South Africa
0	Tsonga	open to translate	13	Africa - South
0	Luxembourgish	open to translate	0.4	Europe - Luxembourg
0	Tigrinya	open to translate	7	Africa - Eritrea, Ethiopia
0	Susu	open to translate	1	Africa - Guinea, Sierra Leone
0	Southern Ndebele	open to translate	2	Africa - South Africa
0	Northern Ndebele	open to translate	1.6	Africa - Zimbabwe
0	Southern Sotho	open to translate	8	Africa - Lesotho, South Africa
0	Northern Sotho	open to translate	9	Africa - South Africa
0	Soninke	open to translate	2.1	Africa - Mali
0	Somali	open to translate	17	Africa - Somalia
0	Shona	open to translate	15	Africa - Zimbabwe
0	Sango	open to translate	1.5	Africa - Central
0	Oromo	open to translate	26	Africa - Ethiopia
0	Maasai	open to translate	1.3	Africa - Kenya
0	Mende	open to translate	1.5	Africa - Sierra Leone
0	Mandinka	open to translate	1.3	Africa - Mali, Senegal
0	Luo	open to translate	6	Africa - Kenya, Tanzania
0	Luhya	open to translate	0.2	Africa - Kenya
0	Kirundi	open to translate	9	Africa - Burundi
0	Kinyarwanda	open to translate	10	Africa - Rwanda
0	Kanuri	open to translate	4	Africa - Nigeria
0	Gikuya	open to translate	6.6	Africa - Kenya
0	Dyula (Jula)	open to translate	15	Africa - Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali
0	Chewa (Nyanja)	open to translate	12	Africa - Zambia, Malawi
0	Bambara	open to translate	6	Africa - Mali