Sateré-Mawé New Testament (MAVWBT)

Overview

The Sateré-Mawe New Testament, titled Tupana Ehay, is a translation of the New Testament into the Sateré-Mawe language of Brazil, completed in 2011 by Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc. [1] The Sateré-Mawe are an indigenous Tupian-speaking people of the state of Amazonas in central Brazil, with an estimated population of around 13,350. [2] They live along the Andirá and Marau rivers, and many are monolingual in Sateré-Mawe. Within the Tupian family the language occupies its own branch, Maweti, outside the Guaraní cluster. They are historically renowned as the first people to domesticate and cultivate guarana, and they developed its traditional processing method. [2] The Sateré-Mawe language was formally recognized as an official language of the state of Amazonas in 2023. [2] The translation is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. [1]

Language and People

Sateré-Mawé (ISO 639-3: mav) is spoken by approximately 6,220 people in Central Brazil. [Glottolog: sate1243]

Publishing and Organizations

Published by Bible League International.

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