(Globe and Mail) Translation makes Bible available to Inuktitut speakers

Posted by Kendall Harmon

It has taken an un-Genesis-like 34 years to create, but Inuit communities in Canada’s Eastern Arctic can now read the complete Bible in their own language.

A consecration ceremony to mark the translation of the King James Version into Inuktitut – the official language in Nunavut, Nunavik and Nunatsiavut – was held Sunday at the new St. Jude’s Anglican Cathedral in Iqaluit, Nunavut.

The project, jointly undertaken by the Canadian Bible Society and the Anglican Church of Canada, cost about $1.75-million, according to Hartmut Wiens, CBS’s director of scripture translation.

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Posted June 5, 2012 at 5:31 am [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]



1. dmitri wrote:

Surely the Bible Societies are translating from the Greek and Hebrew and not from the King James Version??

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