Here you can find a multilingual parallel corpus created from translations of the Bible. This an effort to create a parallel corpus containing as many languages as possible that could be used for a number of NLP tasks. Using the Book, Chapter and Verse indices the corpus is aligned (almost) at a sentence level. (There are cases where two verses in one language are translated as one in another)
Following a similar effort by Philip Resnik and Mari Broman Olsen at the University of Maryland (website) I have encoded the text of each language in XML files using the Corpus Encoding Standard
The following table contains the XML Bibles in 56 languages (all the languages that an electronic version was freely available online) along with information about each language from Ethnologue
You can get all the files here (XML_Bibles.tar)
| Corpus Statistics | |
| Total languages | 56 |
| Non Latin script | 15 |
| <1M speakers | 14 |
| Non Indo-European | 30 |
| Partial Texts | 17 |
| ISO 639-3 | Language | Family | Genus | Subgenus | Speakers | Script | Full | Parts |
| afr | Afrikaans | Indo-European | Germanic | West | 5,000,000 | Latin | Y | |
| als | Albanian | Indo-European | Albanian | Tosk | 3,000,000 | Latin | Y | |
| amh | Amharic | Afro-Asiatic | Semitic | South | 17,500,000 | Ethiopic | N | New Testament |
| arb | Arabic | Afro-Asiatic | Semitic | Central | 206,000,000 | Arabic | Y | |
| hye | Armenian | Indo-European | Armenian | 6,400,000 | Armenian | N | Gen. Exod. Gosp. | |
| eus | Basque | Basque | 700,000 | Latin | N | New Testament | ||
| bul | Bulgarian | Indo-European | Slavic | South | 9,000,000 | Cyrillic | Y | |
| ceb | Cebuano | Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Phillipine | 15,800,000 | Latin | Y | |
| cha | Chamorro | Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Chamorro | 92,000 | Latin | N | Psalm Gosp. Acts |
| cmn | Chinese | Sino-Tibetan | Sinitic | Chinese | 840,000,000 | Chinese | Y | |
| cop | Coptic | Afro-Asiatic | Egyptian | Extinct | Coptic | N | New Testament | |
| hrv | Croatian | Indo-European | Slavic | South | 5,500,000 | Latin | Y | |
| ces | Czech | Indo-European | Slavic | West | 9,500,000 | Latin | Y | |
| dan | Danish | Indo-European | Germanic | North | 5,500,000 | Latin | Y | |
| eng | English | Indo-European | Germanic | West | 328,000,000 | Latin | Y | |
| epo | Esperanto | Constructed | 1000 | Latin | Y | |||
| est | Estonian | Uralic | Finno-Ugric | Finno-Permic | 1,000,000 | Latin | Y | |
| fin | Finnish | Uralic | Finno-Ugric | Finno-Permic | 5,000,000 | Latin | Y | |
| fra | French | Indo-European | Italic | Romance | 58,000,000 | Latin | Y | |
| gla | Gaelic (Scottish) | Indo-European | Celtic | Insular | 67,000 | Latin | N | Gospel of Mark |
| deu | German | Indo-European | Germanic | West | 90,300,000 | Latin | Y | |
| ell | Greek | Indo-European | Greek | Attic | 13,000,000 | Greek | Y | |
| hat | Haitian Creole | Creole | 7,700,000 | Latin | Y | |||
| heb | Hebrew | Afro-Asiatic | Semitic | Central | 5,300,000 | Hebrew | Y | |
| hun | Hungarian | Uralic | Finno-Ugric | Ugric | 12,500,000 | Latin | Y | |
| ind | Indonesian | Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Malayo-Sumbawan | 23,100,000 | Latin | Y | |
| ita | Italian | Indo-European | Italic | Romance | 61,700,000 | Latin | Y | |
| jpn | Japanese | Japonic | 122,000,000 | Kanjii | Y | |||
| kab | Kabyle | Afro-Asiatic | Berber | Northern | 3,100,000 | Latin | N | New Testament |
| kor | Korean | Altaic(?) | 66,300,000 | Hangul | Y | |||
| lat | Latin | Indo-European | Italic | Latino-Faliscan | Extinct | Latin | Y | |
| lav | Latvian | Indo-European | Baltic | Eastern | 1,500,000 | Latin | N | New Testament |
| lit | Lithuanian | Indo-European | Baltic | Eastern | 3,100,000 | Latin | Y | |
| glv | Manx | Indo-European | Celtic | Insular | 77,000 | Latin | N | Esth. Jonah Gosp. |
| mri | Maori | Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Central-Eastern | 60,000 | Latin | Y | |
| mya | Myanmar (Burmese) | Sino-Tibetan | Tibeto-Burman | Lolo-Burmese | 32,300,000 | Myanmar | Y | |
| nor | Norwegian | Indo-European | Germanic | North | 4,600,000 | Latin | Y | |
| por | Portuguese | Indo-European | Italic | Romance | 178,000,000 | Latin | Y | |
| pot | Potawatomi | Algic | Algonquian | Central | 1,300,000 | Latin | N | Matthew Acts |
| rmn | Romani | Indo-European | Indo-Iranian | Indo-Aryan | 710,000 | Latin | N | New Testament |
| ron | Romanian | Indo-European | Italic | Romance | 23,400,000 | Latin | Y | |
| rus | Russian | Indo-European | Slavic | East | 143,000,000 | Cyrillic | Y | |
| srp | Serbian | Indo-European | Slavic | South | 7,000,000 | Latin | Y | |
| spa | Spanish | Indo-European | Italic | Romance | 328,000,000 | Latin | Y | |
| swh | Swahili | Niger-Congo | Atlantic-Congo | Volta-Congo | 788,000 | Latin | N | New Testament |
| swe | Swedish | Indo-European | Germanic | North | 8,300,000 | Latin | Y | |
| arc | Syriac | Afro-Asiatic | Semitic | Central | Extinct | Syriac | N | New Testament |
| tgl | Tagalog | Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Phillipine | 23,900,000 | Latin | Y | |
| ttq | Tamajaq (Tuareg) | Afro-Asiatic | Berber | Tamasheq | 640,000 | Latin | N | Portions |
| tha | Thai | Tai-Kadai | Kam-Tai | Be-Tai | 20,300,000 | Thai | Y | |
| tur | Turkish | Altaic | Turkic | Southern | 50,000,000 | Latin | Y | |
| ukr | Ukranian | Indo-European | Slavic | East | 37,000,000 | Cyrillic | N | New Testament |
| ppk | Uma | Austronesian | Malayo-Polynesian | Celebic | 20,000 | Latin | N | New Testament |
| vie | Vietnamese | Austro-Asiatic | Mon-Khmer | Viet-Muong | 68,600,000 | Latin | Y | |
| wol | Wolof | Niger-Congo | Atlantic-Congo | Atlantic | 4,000,000 | Latin | N | New Testament |
| xho | Xhosa | Niger-Congo | Atlantic-Congo | Volta-Congo | 7,800,000 | Latin | Y |