Languages of the Watchtower

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The Languages of the Watchtower

(to the tune of the Major-General's Song.  More or less.)

 

The Watchtower is the model of a multilingual magazine,
Translated into every living language that I've ever seen,
There's English, Afrikaans, Swahili, German, Macedonian,
And Finnish, Twi, Slovak, Punjabi, Catalan, Cambodian,

Then Chinese (both Traditional and Simplified) then Portuguese,
Estonian, Samoan, Kongo, Malayalam, Japanese,
The Neo-Solomonic pidgin similar to Tok Pisin,
And Creoles whether Seychelles or Haitian or the Mauritian,

Marathi, Turkish, Spanish, Danish, Kiribati, Hmong, Uzbek,
Kirundi, Kinyarwanda, Lunda, Gujarati, Tongan, Czech,
Bicol, Uruund, Kirghiz, Tetum, Chitumbuka, Kwanyama,
Cebuano, Aukan, Pangasinan, and Chitonga, Myanmar,

Moore, Malagasy, Guarani, Bengali, Quechua, Latvian,
Silozi, Saramaccan, Shona, Serbian, Italian,
Kiluba, Baoule, Dangme, Nzema, Tatar, Tsonga, Isoko,
Cibemba, Kikaonde, Polish, Persian, Russian, Iloko,

Icelandic, Swedish, Georgian, then Azerbaijani, and Maltese,
Croatian, and Tahitian, Ga, Ossetian, and Vietnamese,
Oromo, Sango, Papiamento, Luo, Igbo, and Efik,
Amharic, Hiri-Motu, Urdu, Hebrew, Zulu, Arabic,

Niuean, Zande, Nepali, Xhosa, Hausa, Lithuanian,
Sepedi, Hiligaynon, Otetela, and Albanian,
Then Gun, Bislama, Kazakh, Ewe, Tagalog, Hungarian,
Tiv, Waray-Waray, Mizo, Krio, Kannada, Bulgarian,

Swahili, Ndebele, Sranantongo, and Armenian,
Tigrinya, Thai, Tshiluba, Hindi, Yoruba, Slovenian,
Fijian and Korean and Telugu and Wallisian,
Sinhala and Lingala and Umbundu, Indonesian,

And Kisi, Dutch, Mongolian, plus Tamil, Greek, Romanian,
Luganda, Tuvaluan, French, Norwegian, and Ukrainian,
So while JW.org can put more languages on screen,
The Watchtower is the model of a multilingual magazine!

From Episode 4, 'Language', of the Witness Confection Program