Woun Meu New Testament (Alternate Orthography) (NOAWBE)

Overview

The Woun Meu New Testament in alternate orthography (Ẽwandam Iek) is a 2011 Wycliffe Bible Translators edition of the New Testament for the Wounaan people of Colombia, using a revised spelling system [1]. This is one of two orthographic editions of the same translation, the other being the traditional orthography version (Hẽwandam Hiek, NOAWBT) [2]. The Wounaan New Testament was originally published in 1988 by the International Bible Society and later reissued in 2011 by Wycliffe Bible Translators [3]. The Wounaan (also known historically as Noanamá) are a Chocoan-speaking indigenous people residing primarily in the Chocó department of Colombia and the Darién province of Panama [4]. Early linguistic work on the language was carried out by Jacob A. Loewen, who served as a missionary in Colombia from 1947 to 1957 and worked to reduce the Choco language to writing [5], and by Ronald and Kathleen Binder, who published a phonology of Wounaan in 1974 through SIL International [6].

Language and People

Woun Meu (ISO 639-3: noa) is spoken by approximately 10,800 people in Northern Colombia. [Glottolog: woun1238]

Publishing and Organizations

Published by Wycliffe Bible Translators USA.

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