Kankanaey Bible (KNEWBTC)

Overview

The Kankanaey Bible is a near-complete Bible translation (62 books) in the Kankanaey language of the Philippines. The translation was completed by Wycliffe Bible Translators of Canada, Inc. and is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license (copyright 2016). [1] It is available in multiple digital formats including ePub, PDF, and Kindle through eBible.org. [1]

Language and People

Kankanaey (ISO 639-3: kne) is a South-Central Cordilleran language of the Austronesian family, spoken on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. [2] The Kankanaey people are one of the indigenous Igorot peoples of the Cordillera region, with a population of approximately 467,000 as of 2020. [3] They inhabit western Mountain Province, northern Benguet, northeastern La Union, and southeastern Ilocos Sur. [3] The Kankanaey have two distinct sub-groups: the Northern Kankanaey (Applai), who live in Sagada and Besao in western Mountain Province, and the Southern Kankanaey, who inhabit municipalities such as Tadian, Bauko, Sabangan, Bakun, Kibungan, Buguias, and Mankayan. [3]

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