Bible translations into Basque


Joanes Leizarraga, a Catholic priest who joined the Reformation, translated the New Testament into Basque.
George Borrow translated the Gospel of Luke into Basque in 1838, but the translation were banned for personal sale, with only public libraries being permitted copies.
produced the first complete Bible translation in Gipuzkoan Basque in the mid-19th century, but this was never published. His close colleague,, made the first translation which was published in 1859, under the auspices of the philologist Louis Lucien Bonaparte.
The new was published in 1983 and completed 1994.