The bible is translated into many of the languages of China besides Chinese. These include major minority languages with their own literary history, including Korean, Mongolian, Tibetan, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Russian and Uyghur. The other languages of China are mainly tribal languages, spoken mainly in Yunnan and South West China.
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Lisu
Lisu is part of the Tibeto-Burman family. Samuel Pollard and James O. Fraser prepared simple Christian literature while they were in the first stages of learning the Miao and Lisu languages, later moving on to translating the New Testament.
In the Central Lisu dialect, Fraser, after creating the Fraser alphabet, first worked on Mark and John. He then handed on the translation task to Allyn Cooke and his wife, Leila, coming back to help the team with revision in the mid 1930s. Isobel Miller Kuhn also worked on the translation. The complete New Testament was finished in 1938, and the complete Bible in 1968. 45,000 Lisu Bibles were published in 1995.
Eastern Lisu
In Eastern Lisu (a separate language) part of the Bible was published for the first time in 1912 and the New Testament was published in 1951. The Old Testament in Eastern Lisu is not yet fully translated.
Lahu
The complete Bible was first published in Lahu in 1989. Amity Press has published at least part of the bible into Lahu.
Wa
The New Testament was translated by Vincent Young and published in 1938 by British and Foreign Bible Society. The entire Bible was completed by Wa Christians in the ninety's, and a trial version was published. Since the trial version the Bible Society of Myanmar has been worked on a thorough revision of the text, and finalized Wa Bible was published in April 2012. Amity Press has published the New Testament into Wa. Available on YouVersion.
Jingpo/Kachin
The Bible was first translated from its original language of Hebrew and Greek into the Jingpo language in 1926 in Burma, by a Swedish Baptist missionary, Ola Hanson. Amity Press has published the Kachin Bible in 1989 and again in 2013.
Dai
Amity Press has published at least part of the bible into Dai.
Naxi
Mark was translated into Naxi, spoken in Yunnan, by Elise Schapten using the Pollard script and published by the British and Foreign Bible Society in 1932
Miao
Sam Pollard published translations of parts of the Bible into the language of China's Miao, a group of diverse peoples living in China's mountainous southeast and northern Southeast Asia, also called "Flowery Miao" and Hmong.
Pollard started on the New Testament in 1906 and published parts of it, but died of typhoid in 1917 before he could finish. Colleagues completed the work. The book was typeset in Japan, and eventually 85,000 copies were distributed. In the late 1980s, Miao Christian leaders decided to finish Pollard's work and translate the Old Testament. After discussion with the Yunnan Christian Council and the Three-Self Patriotic Movement, semi-official organizations, a translation team was formed in Kunming. One question was whether to continue to use the Pollard script, which was familiar to Christians from their reading of older materials, or to use the new script promulgated by the government in 1956. In the end, a modified version of the old script was used. Since Pollard's Miao characters are not included in Unicode, standard computer word processing programs could not handle the text. Consultants from among the missionaries created keyboard shortcuts, but their unique characters could not be copied or the text checked. The new translation was launched at a ceremony in Kunming, September 2009, with an initial printing of 10,000 copies.