Biblica® Open Hausa Contemporary Bible™ (HAUSRK)

Overview

The Biblica Open Hausa Contemporary Bible, known in Hausa as "Sabon Rai Don Kowa" (meaning "New Life for Everyone"), is a modern translation of the full Bible into the Hausa language. Copyrighted by Biblica, Inc. in 2009 and 2020, the translation was published by the Bible Society of Nigeria. [1] The Hausa Bible translation tradition stretches back to the mid-nineteenth century, when James Schon produced the first Hausa Scripture portions in the 1850s with the help of freed Hausa-speaking slaves. [2] The first complete Hausa Bible, Littafi Mai Tsarki, was published in 1932 by the British and Foreign Bible Society, based largely on the work of Anglican missionary Dr. Walter Miller in Zaria. [2] The Sabon Rai Don Kowa represents a contemporary, dynamic-equivalence approach and is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license, making it freely available for distribution and adaptation. [1]

[1] [Biblica Budadden Littafi Mai Tsarki, Sabon Rai Don Kowa](https://ebible.org/find/details.php?id=hausa) - eBible.org. Copyright, license, and distribution details. [2] [BSN unveils Hausa Bible](https://thenationonlineng.net/bsn-unveils-hausa-bible/) - The Nation Nigeria. History of Hausa Bible translation.

Language and People

Hausa (ISO 639-3: hau) is spoken by approximately 60,000,000 people in Burkina Faso. [Glottolog: haus1257]

Publishing and Organizations

Published by Bible Society of Nigeria.

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