In its review of Bible translations released from 1955 to 1985, The HarperCollins Bible Dictionary listed the New World Translation as one of the major modern translations.[61]
The complete New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures is available in 64 languages as of April 2014: Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Bulgarian, Cebuano, Chichewa, Chinese (Simplified, Traditional or Pinyin), Cibemba, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Efik, English (also Braille), Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Hungarian, Igbo, Iloko, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kinyarwanda, Kirghiz, Kirundi, Korean, Lingala, Macedonian, Malagasy, Maltese, Norwegian, Ossetian, Polish, Portuguese (also Braille), Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Sepedi, Serbian (Cyrillic and Latin scripts), Sesotho, Shona, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish (also Braille), Sranantongo, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tsonga, Tswana, Turkish, Ukrainian, Twi (Akuapem and Asante), Xhosa, Yoruba, and Zulu.
The New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures is available in an additional 51 languages as of February 2014: Amharic, Azerbaijani (Cyrillic and Latin scripts), Cambodian, Chitonga, Chitumbuka, Estonian, Ewe, Fijian, Gun, Guarani, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hiligaynon, Hindi, Hiri Motu, Italian Braille, Kannada, Kazakh, Kikaonde, Kiluba, Kiribati (Gilbertese), Kongo, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luganda, Luvale, Malayalam, Maya, Myanmar, Nepali, Otetela, Pangasinan, Papiamento (Curaçao), Punjabi, Sango, Silozi, Solomon Islands Pidgin, Swati, Tamil, Tatar, Tetum, Thai, Tigrinya, Tok Pisin, Tongan, Tshiluba, Tuvaluan, Uzbek, Venda, Vietnamese, Waray-Waray.
The New World Translation is also available on DVD in part in 7 languages as of 2013: American Sign Language, Brazilian Sign Language, Colombian Sign Language, Italian Sign Language, Korean Sign Language, Mexican Sign Language, and Russian Sign Language.
Non-print editions
In 1978, the Watch Tower Society began producing recordings of the NWT on audio cassette,[48] with the New Testament released by 1981[49] and the Old Testament in three albums released by 1990.[50] In 2004, the NWT was released on compact disc in MP3 format in major languages.[51] Since 2008, audio downloads of the NWT have been made available in 18 languages in MP3 and AAC formats, including support for Podcasts.
A diskette edition of the NWT released in 1993
In 1983, the English Braille edition of the NWT's New Testament was released;[52] the complete English Braille edition was released by 1988.[53] NWT editions have since become available in several additional Braille scripts.[54] Production of the NWT in American Sign Language began in 2006, with the complete New Testament made available by 2010;[55] sign language editions are also available for download.[56]
In 1992 a digital edition, New World Translation of the Holy ScripturesWith References, was released, as a set of seven 3½-inch 720 KB diskettes or four 5¼-inch 1.2 MB diskettes, using Folio View software. In 1993, New World Translation of the Holy ScripturesWith References/Insight on the Scriptures was released in English, as a set of 5¼-inch 1.2 MB or 3½-inch 1.44 MB diskettes, containing the New World Translation and Insight on the Scriptures. Since 1994, the New World Translation of the Holy ScripturesWith References has been included in the Watchtower Library on CD-ROM, available only to baptized Jehovah's Witnesses.[57][58] The 2013 English edition of Watchtower Library on CD-ROM includes both the 1984 reference Bible and the 2013 revision. The NWT is available online at the Watch Tower Society's official website in over 70 languages.[59] It is available for download in various languages in PDF, MOBI and EPUB formats. In 2013, an official application entitled JW Library was released on multiple platforms for tablets and mobile devices.[60]
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