Miskito Bible (MIQSBN)

Overview

The Dawan Bîla is the New Testament in the Mískito language, published by the Bible Society of Nicaragua in 1998. Mískito is the language of the Miskito people, the largest indigenous group on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua and Honduras, a region historically known as the Mosquito Coast. [1] The Moravian Church began missionary work among the Miskito in 1849, and over the following decades Miskito became the language of the Moravian church in the region, with hymn books and religious texts translated into the language. [2] The New Testament has been translated into Miskito twice, and a project to translate the Old Testament was undertaken in the late 1980s under the direction of Rev. Joe Gray, a Moravian minister, with a team of five Miskito translators working in Nicaragua, Honduras, and the United States. [3] The full Bible, Dawan Bîla Aiska, was subsequently published by the Bible Society in Nicaragua in 2010. [4]

Language and People

Mískito (ISO 639-3: miq) is spoken by approximately 143,000 people in Nicaragua. [Glottolog: misk1235]

Publishing and Organizations

Published by Bible Society of Nicaragua.

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