Introduction to Bhagavad-gita in 108+ Languages

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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 gathering momentum. 25 languages are already completed, with 21 other languages in process. There are 24 eight-minute videos to subtitle and translating them takes no longer than 24 hours of seva.


Our goal is to complete at least 108 languages by the 20th February 2016 - the 50th Anniversary of Śrīla Prabhupāda speaking it - which will also be Lord Nityananda's Appearance Day. You can watch the videos and read the texts here.


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, the translators, the number of speakers and where it is spoken.

Status of Videos Language Translators Speakers (Millions) Where Spoken (Major)
2 Chinese Simplified Yamuna Jivani 1151 Asia - China, Malaysia, Taiwan
16 Chinese Traditional Radhananda 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/Timur 277 Europe - Russia, Central Asia
0 Arabic open to translate 255 Asia - Middle East, Arabia, North Africa
15 Portuguese (Pt) Nityananda 60 Europe - Portugal, Southern Africa
24 Portuguese (Br) Gauri Gopika 202 South America - Brazil
12 Bengali Deveswara Krsna 215 India - Eastern, Bangladesh
24 French Marc2 200 Europe - France, Canada, West Africa, Central Africa
0 Malay, Indonesian open to translate 175 SE Asia - Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore
24 German Revati 166 Europe - Germany, Austria, Central Europe
24 Swahili Omkar Mukund 140 Africa - Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
9 Japanese Visnu-Priya 132 SE Asia - Japan
24 Farsi (Persian) Nasrin/Nityangi 110 Asia - Iran, Afghanistan
0 Urdu open to translate 104 India - Pakistan
0 Punjabi open to translate 103 India - Pakistan
0 Wu open to translate 90 Asia - China
0 Vietnamese open to translate 86 SE Asia - Vietnam, China
0 Javanese open to translate 85 SE Asia - Indonesia
22 Tamil Sumangala Laksmi 78 India - South, Sri Lanka, Malyasia
0 Korean open to translate 78 SE Asia - Korean Peninsula
24 Turkish Lara 75 Asia - Turkey
8 Telugu KrishnaKishor/VamsiKrishna/RamMurari 74 India - South
0 Marathi open to translate 72 India - West
24 Italian Mahatseva 62 Europe - Italy, Central Europe
0 Thai open to translate 60 SE Asia - Thailand, Laos
0 Cantonese open to translate 55 Asia - Southern China
20 Kannada Prabhupada Vani 47 India - South
24 Gujarati Rukmini Govind 46 India - West, Kenya
0 Polish open to translate 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
0 Malayalam open to translate 38 India - Kerala
11 Ukrainian Indubhushan 37 Europe - Ukraine
0 Oriya open to translate 33 India - Odisha
0 Marwari open to translate 31 India - Rajasthan, Pakistan
7 Dutch Rene / Sofiya 28 Europe - Netherlands, Belgium, and Suriname
0 Haryanvi open to translate 28 India - Haryana, Delhi
0 Romanian open to translate 28 Europe - Romania, Moldova
0 Tagalog open to translate 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
10 Nepali VrajendraSuta/Haripriya 17 India - Nepal, Bhutan
0 Singhalese open to translate 16 Asia - Sri Lanka
3 Hungarian Tattva Darshana 15 Europe - Hungary
6 Greek Namasankirtan 13.1 Europe - Greece, Cyprus
0 Chittagonian open to translate 13 Asia - Bangladesh
2 Azerbaijani, South Gültekin 12 Asia - Iran
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
11 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
0 Finnish open to translate 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
0 Macedonian open to translate 2.5 Europe - Macedonia
24 Slovenian Barabara/Domen 2.5 Europe - Slovenia
24 Latvian Lalita Gopika 1.5 Europe - Latvia
0 Estonian open to translate 1 Europe - Estonia
24 Serbo-Croatian Gaura 19 Europe - Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia
5 Serbian Alakananda 10 Europe - Serbia
9 Amharic Maha Prasad 22 Africa - Ethiopia
0 Assamese open to translate 16 India - Assam
0 Catalan open to translate 7.2 Europe - Spain
0 Mauritian Creole open to translate 1.3 Africa - Mauritius
2 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
2 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
1 Esperanto Mahatseva 0.3 Global
0 Ewe open to translate 3.6 Africa - Ghana
0 Galician open to translate 2.3 Europe - Spain
0 Welsh open to translate 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
1 Turkmen Tulasi 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
0 Newari open to translate 1 Asia - Nepal
0 Manipuri open to translate 1.5 India - Manipur
0 Georgian open to translate 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
0 Kazakh open to translate 11 Asia - Kazakhstan
0 Khmer open to translate 16 Asia - Cambodia
2 Kurdish open to translate 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
16 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
0 Maithili open to translate 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