Kambaata Bible Society Version (KTBBSE)

Overview

The Kambaata Bible Society Version is a New Testament translation in the Kambaata language, published by the Bible Society of Ethiopia. The earliest Scripture portions in Kambaata, including Genesis, date to 1980. [1] The complete New Testament was first published in the Ethiopic syllabary (Ge'ez script) in 1992, and was later republished in Latin letters. [2] Kambaata is a Highland East Cushitic language spoken in south-central Ethiopia, and the translation serves a growing Christian community in the Kambaata Zone. The two dominant Protestant denominations in the region trace their roots to the Sudan Interior Mission (SIM) and to Scandinavian Lutheran missionaries connected to the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus. [2]

Language and People

Kambaata (ISO 639-3: ktb) is spoken by approximately 743,000 people in Southwestern Ethiopia. [Glottolog: kamb1316]

The Kambaata people are a Cushitic ethnic group inhabiting the Kambaata Zone (formerly Kambaata and Tambaro Zone) in the Central Ethiopia Regional State. [2] Kambaata belongs to the Highland East Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family, closely related to Hadiyya, Sidamo, and Alaba. [3]

Publishing and Organizations

Published by Bible Society of Ethiopia.

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