Episcopal Church of Christ the King.
Woodlawn, Maryland.
Pentecost: May 15, 2005.
http://www.ecctk.info/ctkpent/ctkpnt05.htm

The Episcopal Church of Christ the King, Woodlawn, Maryland, is part of a worldwide fellowship of Christians, known as the Anglican Communion, and our membership includes people from many different countries. Many members of the Episcopal Church of Christ the King have the gift of multiple languages, which they share with us on the Feast of Pentecost.

On Pentecost Sunday, May 15, 2005, bilingual members of the Episcopal Church of Christ the King read the New Testament Lesson in the following languages:

John 20:19-23.

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Lectionary A:

Ezekiel 11:17-20.

John 14:8-17.

John 20:19-23.

Acts 2:1-11.

1 Corinthians 12:4-13.

Lectionary B:

Isaiah 44:1-8.

John 14:8-17.

John 20:19-23.

Acts 2:1-11.

1 Corinthians 12:4-13.

Lectionary C:

Isaiah 44:1-8.

Joel 2:28-32.

John 14:8-17.

John 20:19-23.

Acts 2:1-11.

1 Corinthians 12:4-13.

Credits:

The King James Version (English, 1611) is uncopyrighted.
http://bible.gospelcom.net/languages/

The Darby Translation (French). Public Domain.

Luther's Bible (German, 1534). Public Domain.

Spanish Translation. Reina Valera Antigua. Public Domain.
http://bible.gospelcom.net/languages/

The Vulgate Bible (Latin, 405). Public Domain.
http://bible.gospelcom.net/languages/

Notes:

ARAMAIC: Aramaic is a Semitic language, used for the administration of empires and as the language of divine worship. It is the original language of large sections of the biblical books of Daniel and Ezra, and is the main language of the Talmud. Aramaic is believed to have been one of the languages spoken by Jesus, and it is still spoken today as a first language by numerous small communities. Aramaic is Written (right-to-left) in the Hebrew alphabet. Closest modern relative: Chaldean.

BASSA: The Bassa are a people of Liberia, living in Grand Bassa, Rivercess, and Montserrado counties, who speak a Kru language. The Bassa people number about 350,000 (as of 1991). They have their own writing system, called Bassa or Vah, which was developed around 1900. There are also about 5000 Bassa people living in Sierra Leone. They practice Christianity, as well as indigenous religions.

CHINESE: Chinese is the second most commonly spoken language in the world, after English. About one-fifth of the people in the world speak some form of Chinese as their native language. Many variants of spoken Chinese are different enough to be mutually incomprehensible. There are twelve main regional groups including: Mandarin (800 million speakers), Wu (90 million speakers), and Cantonese (80 million speakers). Spoken in: Mainland China (including Hong Kong, Macau); Republic of China (Taiwan and nearby islands); Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Burma and Cambodia, parts of Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Philippines, and in Chinese communities around the world

FRENCH: French is spoken by about 109 million people as a mother tongue, and altogether by 264 million people. Spoken in: France, French Overseas Territories; Canada especially in Quebec and New Brunswick; Belgium; Switzerland; Lebanon; Luxembourg; Monaco; Morocco; Algeria; Tunisia; Ivory Coast; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Niger; Senegal; Haiti; Mauritius; Laos; Vietnam; Mexico; and U.S. states of Louisiana, Maine, and New Hampshire.

GERMAN: Spoken primarily in: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, by more than 120 million people in 38 countries of the world. German belongs to the ten most spoken languages worldwide. Spoken in: Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Belgium, Italy, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Czech Republic, Denmark, Namibia, South Africa, Canada, and USA.

GREEK: Greek is spoken by approximately 15 million people in Greece, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Albania, and Turkey. There are also many Greek emigrant communities around the world, such as those in Melbourne, Australia which has the third-largest urban Greek population in the world, after Athens and Thessaloniki. Greek has been written in the Greek alphabet since the 9th century BC in Greece. Greek literature has a continuous history of nearly 3000 years. Greek is the language of the New Testament. Written in the Greek alphabet: ΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛΜΝΞΟΠΡΣΤΥΦΧΨΩ (upper case); αβγδεζηθικλμνξοπρστυφχψω (lower case).

HEBREW: Spoken in Israel. Language of the Old Testament. Written (right-to-left) in the Hebrew alphabet: אבגדהוזחטיכלמנסעפצקרשת

IGBO: Igbo is a language spoken in Nigeria by around 18 million speakers (the Igbo people), especially in the southeastern region, once identified as Biafra. Igbo is written in the Roman alphabet. Igbo is a tonal language, like Yoruba and Chinese.

JAPANESE: Spoken in Japan. Uses four alphabets: Kanji (Chinese, over 2000 characters); Hiragana (phonetic); Katakana (phonetic); Romaji (Romanized). Japanese comic books and elementary texts for non-Japanese students are written phonetically in Hiragana.

KRIO: Krio is a creole language native to the Krios, a community of about 250,000 descendants of freed slaves living in Sierra Leone's capital city of Freetown. It is also spoken as a lingua franca, or second language, by about 4 million Sierra Leoneans of other ethnic groups, and by thousands of Krio descendants living in other parts of West Africa.

The vocabulary of Krio is derived primarily from English, while its sound system, grammar and sentence structure are heavily influenced by African languages, particularly the Yoruba language of Nigeria.

LATIN: Official language of the Roman Empire in the time of Jesus Christ. Official language of the Roman Catholic Church, and used in Vatican City for official business. The written language of science and culture in Europe until mid-nineteenth century. Closest modern relative: Italian.

PORTUGUESE: Portuguese is the second-largest of the Romance languages, after Spanish. Portuguese originated in what is today Galicia (in Spain) and northern Portugal. Portuguese is spoken in Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, S�o Tom�, Pr�ncipe, Chinese Semi-Autonomous Republic of Macau, and Tetum in East Timor. There are over 200 million Portuguese speaker worldwide, In the 15th-16th century colonial period, many Portuguese creoles appeared around the world, especially in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean.

SPANISH: Spanish (or Castilian) is an Iberian Romance language, the most-widely spoken Romance language in the world, spoken by 332 million people in countries where it is an official language, and by 400 million people total. Spanish originated in Spain, and was brought by Spanish explorers and colonists to the Western Hemisphere and other parts of the world in the past five centuries. Spoken in: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, European Union, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, New Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Spain, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

TURKISH: Turkish is a Turkic language spoken in the Republic of Turkey, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, Greece, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Azerbaijan, and Germany. Turkish is spoken in Greece and in other countries of the former Ottoman Empire, as well as by several million emigrants in the European Union, estimated at 60 million speakers. There is a high degree of mutual intelligibility between Turkish and other Oghuz languages such as Azeri, Turkmen, and Qashqai, for a total number of native speakers as 100 million, and a total number including second-language speakers around 125 million. Changed from the Arabic alphabet to the Roman alphabet in 1928.

RUSSIAN: Spoken in: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Germany (formerly East Germany), Hungary, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Svalbard, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. Written in the Cyrillic alphabet: АБВГДЕЖЗИЙКЛМНОПРСТУФХЦЧШЩЪЫЬЭЮЯ (upper case); абвгдежзийклмнопрстуфхцчшщъыьэюя (lower case).

Last updated, 6/20/2007, by Bill Moore.

Episcopal Church of Christ the King. Woodlawn, Maryland. Pentecost: May 15, 2005. http://www.ecctk.info/ctkpent/ctkpnt05.htm

John 20:19-23.

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Lectionary B:

Lectionary C:

Credits:

Notes:

Episcopal Church of Christ the King.
Woodlawn, Maryland.
Pentecost: May 15, 2005.
http://www.ecctk.info/ctkpent/ctkpnt05.htm