Actually this statement is wrong. The Word was in other languages as well. It's just that the Roman Catholic Church was confiscating those scriptures and burning them. The Waldenses were one group of people who were murdered for their adherence to those manuscripts.
The work of the reformers did not come by way of the RCC, or the Latin Vulgate. There were other manuscripts that survived the Pope's purge of true scriptures and those are the ones that became the Textus Receptus and the eventually the King James Bible.
Um, what?