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The Eliot Indian Bible (Massachusett: Mamusse Wunneetupanatamwe Up-Biblum God; [1] also known as the Algonquian Bible) was the first translation of the Christian Bible into an indigenous American language, as well as the first Bible published in British North America. It was prepared by English Puritan missionary John Eliot by translating the ...
Central America: 288,000 Yes (English-based creole language) Botswana [4] BWA Africa: 1,882,000 Yes Burundi [5] BDI Africa 10,114,505 No Cameroon [2] CMR Africa 22,534,532 No (co-official with French, but only spoken primarily in the Northwest and Southwest of the country) Canada: CAN North America: 38,048,738
The Normans spoke a dialect of Old French, and the comingling of Norman French and Old English resulted in Middle English, a language that reflects aspects of both Germanic and Romance languages and evolved into the English we speak today, where nearly 60% of the words are loanworded from Latin & romance languages like French.
The Wampanoag language or "Massachuset language" (Algonquian family) was the first North American Indian language into which any Bible translation was made; John Eliot began his Natick version in 1653 and finished it in 1661-63, with a revised edition in 1680-85. It was the first Bible to be printed in North America.
Old English 950 to 970 Vulgate Farman Gloss on the Gospel of Matthew in the Rushworth Gospels: Old English 950 to 970 Vulgate Ælfric: Pentateuch, Book of Joshua, Judges: Old English c. 990: Vulgate Wessex Gospels [1] Gospels Old English c. 990: Old Latin Caedmon manuscript: A few English Bible verses Old English 700 to 1000 Vulgate The Ormulum
Windows 8, the first Windows release in Cherokee, contains "nearly 180,000 words and phrases" in Cherokee, and is the first Windows release in a Native American language. [46] Beginning in 2001, the Cherokee Bible Project began posting the New Testament and portions of Old Testament Books on the internet.
In the late 14th century, the first (known, extant) complete Middle English language Bible was produced, probably by scholars at Oxford University. This New Testament was initially completed by 1380 and the Old Testament a few years later and is a word-for-word translation of the Vulgate suited for scholary reference. Some 30 copies of this ...
Though the text is principally just a revision of William Tyndale's earlier work of 1534, Tyndale had only fully translated the New Testament; he had translated the Old Testament through 2 Chronicles before he was imprisoned. The English refugees living in Geneva completed the first translation of the Old Testament from Hebrew to English.