Depending on which countries and languages you count there are over 300 indigenous languages in Europe and hundreds more spoken by people who have moved from elsewhere in the world.
Online Bibles and resources are widely available in many languages but not aways widely known about. Print Bibles can be harder to find.
(In addition to the 50 languages covered so far in New Neighbour, ScriptureEarth.org links to digital Bibles and other products in over 3,000 languages and has links to where some of these can be bought from some locations)
In the coming months we will add more details and information but for now here is a list of just some of the places in Europe that you can buy printed Bibles in a range of languages.
Q. How many non-european languages are spoken in Europe?
A. Nobody knows.
Here's why it's complicated
Any discussion of European and Non-European languages necessitates a definition of the boundaries of Europe.
The European Union has 27 member states, 3 others are added to make up the The European Economic Area, with a 31st added to form the EU’s single market.
Geographic definitions include 9 additional European countries and parts of another 5 transcontinental ones.
Meanwhile the Council of Europe which sponsors the European Day of languages each September has 46 member states and estimates that there are about 225 indigenous languages in Europe.
SIL's Ethnologue draws the map differently again and in 2022 had a count of 291 indigenous languages for Europe across 50 countries (and territories). 52 languages were classed as dying, and 76 in trouble.
There were 110 languages found in the Ethnologue’s definition of Europe that originate from outside.
