Bible in Lugbara (LGGBSU)

Overview

The Bible in Lugbara is the complete Bible in the Lugbara language, completed in 1966 by the British and Foreign Bible Society, following an earlier New Testament. From 1951 a Lugbara Bible Translation Committee, chaired by A. Seton Maclure and made up of missionaries and Lugbara members representing the tribe's dialects, undertook the Old Testament and a revision of the New Testament. Lugbara (also called Lugbarati) is a Central Sudanic language of the Eastern Moru-Madi group, spoken in the West Nile region of northwestern Uganda and in the Orientale Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [1] The language was first written by Christian missionaries in 1918, based on the Ayivu dialect. [1] The Africa Inland Mission (AIM) played a significant role in the West Nile region, sending mainly Anglican missionaries under a special arrangement negotiated by Bishop Willis. [2] The Italian Verona Mission and AIM entered the area soon after 1914. [2] In 2000, a conference in Arua established a standardized international orthography for Lugbara. [1] The Bible is distributed by the Bible Society of Uganda, which lists Lugbara among its complete Bible translations.

Language and People

Lugbara (ISO 639-3: lgg) is spoken by approximately 1,940,000 people in Northern Democratic Republic of Congo. [Glottolog: lugb1240]

Publishing and Organizations

Published by International Bible Society of East Africa.

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