Episcopal Church of Christ the King. Pentecost: June 4, 2006.

Episcopal Church of Christ the King.
Woodlawn, Maryland.
Pentecost: May 31, 2009.
http://www.ecctk.info/ctkpent/ctkpnt09.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 31, 2009, bilingual members of the Episcopal Church of Christ the King read the New Testament Lesson in the following languages:

Acts 2:1-8.

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, Special Administrative Region of 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, Sáo Tomé, Príncipe, Chinese Special Administrative Region 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).

Pentecost Lesson.

Pentecost is the birthday of the Christian Church. The word that Jesus Christ used when he commissioned Saint Peter to the leadership of the Church was: εκκλεςια (Greek: ecclesia, "assembly"). (Matthew 16:18ff). In the first Pentecost (Acts 2:1-11), the Holy Spirit came down in tongues of fire, and inspired the disciples to preach the good news, in the mother-languages of all persons gathered. Even though the speakers were all Galileans, they spoke in the other local languages of the region. The Pentecost Miracle symbolically reverses the confounding of tongues that had taken place in the Tower of Babel (Genesis 7:xx), when humankind attempted, blasphemously, to build a building reaching to heaven, with inferior construction materials, both physical and spiritual.

File Nomenclature:

Each Pentecost Bible lesson for each language is stored as a text_file, whose name indicates the file's contents. All files are downloaded from documents on the internet, that are designated as PUBLIC DOMAIN and given an appropriate bibliographic citation. PUBLIC DOMAIN means that the copyright has expired for the document. This copyright expiration applies to the United States, Canada, the European Union, and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years. It is an academic courtesy, but not a legal requirement, that all text sources should be cited.

The Christ the King website is a collection of text_files and graphics_files. All text_files have alphanumeric names ending in .htm (= HyperText Markup). Graphics_files have names ending either in .jpg (= Joint Pphotographic_experts Ggroup); or in .gif (= Graphics Iinterchange Format). The primary text_file (=root_file) for this website is named http://www.ecctk.org/index (where http= HyperText Transfer Protocol; www=WorldWide Web; ecctk= Episcopal Church of Christ The King; and org=ORGanization. You can display this file by typing http://www.ecctk.org into the ADDRESS line (top of your internet browser screen). Each of the other files in this website may be reached by left-mouse-clicking on a HYPERLINK, i.e., underlined text. The files are managed by ECCTK parishioners, Dick Holmes and Bill Moore.

The inexpensive file_transfer_protocol (FTP) software used by the ECCTK website, i.e., cost-free for non-commercial use, requires internet filenames at most 8 alphanumeric characters in length, followed by .htm. The Bible lesson files in this website are named as follows:

where ck stands forEpiscopal Church of Christ the King, ll is the 2-letter language name, bb is the 2-letter book_name in the Bible, and cc is the 2-numeral chapter_number, where chapter-numbers over 99 (i.e., Psalms are numbered up to 150) are numbered a=100, b=110, c=120, d=130, e=140, f=150. Therefore, Psalm 144 in Turkish would be numbered cktrpse4.

There are seven lessons designated for Pentecost in the Lectionary of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer. They are:

Name of language is according to Alpha-2 convention of the List_of_ISO_639_codes, according to the International Standards Organization (ISO).

The xx books of the Old Testament and the xx books of the New Testament of the Holy Bible are assigned to the following two-letter abbreviations.

Languages with 2-letter ISO language designations are as follows, to which we have added: bs=Bassa; kr=Krio; and kj=King James Version:

abk ab Abkhaz
aar aa Afar
afr af Afrikaans
aka ak Akan 
alb sq Albanian (Shqip)
amh am Amharic
ara ar Arabic
arg an Aragonese Aragonos
arm hy Armenian 
asm as Assamese 
ava av Avaric 
ave ae Avestan avesta 
aym ay Aymara aymar aru 
aze az Azerbaijani Azerbaycanca 
bam bm Bambara bamanankan 
bak ba Bashkir 
baq eu Basque (euskara)
bel be Belarusian 
ben bn Bangla 
bih bh Bihari 
bis bi Bislama 
bos bs Bosnian (bosanski jezik)
kro bs Kru (Bassa)
bre br Breton brezhoneg 
bul bg Bulgarian 
cat ca Catalan; Valencian catal´n
cha ch Chamorro Chamoru 
nya ny Chichewa; Chewa; Nyanja chiChewa; chinyanja 
zho zh Chinese; zhong
chu cu Church Slavonic; Church Slavic;
chv cv Chuvash 
cor kw Cornish Kernewek 
cos co Corsican corsu; (lingua corsa)
cre cr Cree 
hrv hr Croatian (hrvatski jezik)
ces cs Czech cesky;
dan da Danish dansk 
div dv Divehi 
nld nl Dutch; Flemish (Nederlands)
dzo dz Dzongkha
eng en English English 
epo eo Esperanto Esperanto 
est et Estonian Eesti (keel)
ewe ee Ewe 
fao fo Faroese
fij fj Fijian (vosa Vakaviti)
fin fi Finnish suomi; (suomen kieli)
fre fr French français; langue française 
fry fy Western Frisian (frysk)
ful ff Fulah Fulfulde, Pulaar, Pular
glg gl Galician Galego
lug lg Ganda Luganda
geo ka Georgian (kartuli ena) 
deu de German Deutsch 
ell el Greek, Modern
kal kl Greenlandic; Kalaallisut kalaallisut; kalaallit oqaasii 
grn gn Guarani 
guj gu Gujarati 
hat ht Haitian Creole; Haitian (Kreyol ayisyen)
hau ha Hausa Hausanci;
heb he Hebrew
her hz Herero Otjiherero 
hin hi Hindi 
hmo ho Hiri Motu 
hun hu Hungarian Magyar 
isl is Icelandic Islenska 
ido io Ido Ido 
ibo ig Igbo Igbo 
ind id Indonesian 
ina ia Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association) interlingua 
ile ie Interlingue Interlingue 
iku iu Inuktitut
ipk ik Inupiaq 
gle ga Irish Gaeilge 
ita it Italian (italiano)
jpn ja Japanese
jav jv Javanese (basa Jawa)
kau kr Kanuri 
kas ks Kashmiri 
kaz kk Kazakh 
khm km Khmer  
kik ki Kikuyu Gikuyu 
kin rw Kinyarwanda kinyaRwanda 
kir ky Kirghiz
kom kv Komi
kon kg Kongo (Kikongo)
kor ko Korean 
kro bs Kru (Bassa)
kua kj Kuanyama; Kwanyama 
kur ku Kurdish 
lao lo Lao 
lat la Latin latine; lingua latina 
lav lv Latvian (latviešu valoda)
lim li Limburgish; Limburger; Limburgan Limburgs 
lin ln Lingala lingala 
lit lt Lithuanian lietuviu kalba 
lub lu Luba-Katanga 
ltz lb Luxembourgish; Letzeburgesch Lëtzebuergesch 
mkd mk Macedonian 
div dv Mahl Kajin M¸ajel 
mlg mg Malagasy Malagasy fiteny 
msa ms Malay bahasa Melayu;
mal ml Malayalam 
mlt mt Maltese Malti 
glv gv Manx Gaelg; Manninagh 
mao mi Maori te reo Maori 
mar mr Marathi 
mah mh Marshallese Kajin M¸ajel 
mol mo Moldavian 
mon mn Mongolian 
nau na Nauruan Ekakairu Naoero 
nav nv Navajo; Navaho Diné bizaad; Dinék'ehjí 
nde nd Ndebele, North isiNdebele 
nbl nr Ndebele, South Ndébélé
ndo ng Ndonga Owambo 
nep ne Nepali 
sme se Northern Sami sámi; sámegiella 
nor no Norwegian Norsk 
nob nb Norwegian Bokmål Norsk bokmål 
nno nn Norwegian Nynorsk Norsk nynorsk 
oci oc Occitan (Provençal Occitan)
oji oj Ojibwa 
ori or Oriya
orm om Oromo Afaan Oromoo 
oss os Ossetian; Ossetic 
pli pi Pali 
per fa Persian (Fársi)
pol pl Polish Polski 
por pt Portuguese Portugués 
pan pa Punjabi (Panjabi)
pus ps Pushto 
que qu Quechua Runa Simi; Kichwa 
roh rm Raeto-Romance rumantsch grischun 
ron ro Romanian romána 
run rn Rundi kiRundi 
rus ru Russian
smo sm Samoan gagana fa'a Samoa 
sag sg Sango 
san sa Sanskrit 
srd sc Sardinian sardu 
gla gd Scottish Gaelic; Gaelic Gàidhlig 
srp sr Serbian 
sna sn Shona chiShona 
iii ii Sichuan Yi
snd sd Sindhi
sin si Sinhalese; Sinhala
slk sk Slovak slovencina 
slv sl Slovenian slovenšcina 
som so Somali Soomaaliga; af Soomaali 
sot st Sotho, Southern seSotho 
spa es Spanish; Castilian español, castellano 
sun su Sundanese basa Sunda 
swa sw Swahili kiswahili 
ssw ss Swati siSwati 
swe sv Swedish Svenska 
tgl tl Tagalog Tagalog 
tah ty Tahitian te reo Tahiti; te reo Ma'ohi 
tgk tg Tajik 
tam ta Tamil
tat tt Tatar 
tel te Telugu 
tha th Thai 
tib bo Tibetan 
tir ti Tigrinya 
ton to Tongan (faka-Tonga)
tso ts Tsonga (xiTsonga)
tsn tn Tswana (seTswana)
tur tr Turkish (Türkçe)
tuk tk Turkmen 
twi tw Twi 
uig ug Uighur; (Uyghur)
ukr uk Ukrainian 
urd ur Urdu 
uzb uz Uzbek O'zbek
ven ve Venda 
vie vi Vietnamese 
vol vo Volapüük (Volapük)
wln wa Walloon walon 
cym cy Welsh Cymraeg 
wol wo Wolof Wolof 
xho xh Xhosa 
yid yi Yiddish 
yor yo Yoruba Yorúbá 
zha za Zhuang; 
zul zu Zulu isiZulu

Lesson	Language	Translation	Filename
Acts 2:1-11.	English	King James Version	http://www.ecctk.info/ctkpent/ckkjaa02.htm
John 14:8-17.	English	King James Version	http://www.ecctk.info/ctkpent/ckkjjn14.htm
John 20:19-23.	English	King James Version	http://www.ecctk.info/ctkpent/ckkjjn20.htm
Hechos 2:1-11.	Español	Reina Valera Antigua	http://www.ecctk.info/ctkpent/ckesaa02.htm
Actes 2:1-11.	Français	Louis Seconde	http://www.ecctk.info/ctkpent/ckfraa02.htm
Actes 2:1-11.	Deutsch	Luther Bibel	http://www.ecctk.info/ctkpent/ckdeaa02.htm

Dates for Easter/Pentecost.

Year	Easter	Pentecost
2005	Mar 27	May 15
2006	Apr 16	Jun 4
2007	Apr 8	May 27
2008	Mar 23	May 11
2009	Apr 12	May 31
2010	Apr 4	May 23
2011	Apr 24	Jun 12
2012	Apr 8	May 27
2013	Mar 31	May 19
2014	Apr 20	Jun 8
2015	Apr 5	May 21
2016	Mar 27	May 15
2017	Apr 16	Jun 4
2018	Apr 1	May 20
2019	Apr 21	Jun 9
2020	Apr 22	Jun 10
2021	Apr 4	May 23
2022	Apr 17	Jun 5
2023	Apr 9	May 28

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

Episcopal Church of Christ the King. Woodlawn, Maryland. Pentecost: May 31, 2009. http://www.ecctk.info/ctkpent/ctkpnt09.htm

Acts 2:1-8.

Lectionary A:

Lectionary B:

Lectionary C:

Credits:

Notes:

Pentecost Lesson.

File Nomenclature:

Dates for Easter/Pentecost.

Episcopal Church of Christ the King.
Woodlawn, Maryland.
Pentecost: May 31, 2009.
http://www.ecctk.info/ctkpent/ctkpnt09.htm