Tanimuca-Retuarã New Testament portions (TNCBLI)

Overview

The Tanimuca-Retuara New Testament portions, titled "Tupara Majaroka" in the vernacular, contain selected books of the New Testament translated into the Tanimuca-Retuara language of southeastern Colombia. [1] The translation was produced by Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc., and is classified as a revision, with a copyright date of 2013. [2] Tanimuca-Retuara (also known as Letuama) is a central Tucanoan language spoken by communities distributed across the Amazon Basin in the Vaupes and Apaporis river regions. [3] SIL International has been involved in documenting the language, including Clay Strom's publication "Retuara Syntax: Studies in the Languages of Colombia 3" (1992), which describes the grammar from a typological/functional perspective. [4] Though the Retuara and Tanimuca peoples identify as distinct groups, they speak the same language with only slight lexical differences. [4]

Language and People

Tanimuca-Retuara (ISO 639-3: tnc) is an endangered Tucanoan language spoken by approximately 1,800 people in widely distributed communities of the Amazon Basin in southeastern Colombia, particularly along the Vaupes and Apaporis rivers. [3] [5] The language belongs to the central branch of the Tucanoan family and is closely related to neighboring Tucanoan and Arawakan languages, with contact-induced grammatical variation among dispersed populations. [4] The Tanimuca and Retuara (Letuama) consider themselves separate peoples but share a mutually intelligible language. [4] UNESCO classifies Tanimuca-Retuara as endangered. [5] [Glottolog: tani1257]

Publishing and Organizations

Published by Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc. Translation type: Revision.

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