Tena Lowland Quichua 1982 Revision (QUWHLE)

Overview

The Tena Lowland Quichua 1982 Revision is a New Testament in the Tena Lowland Quichua language, a Quechuan language spoken in the eastern Amazonian region of Ecuador along the Napo River and its tributaries. [1] This edition is a revision produced by Hermanos Libres del Ecuador (the Free Brethren of Ecuador, associated with the Plymouth Brethren movement) and is now in the public domain. [2] Plymouth Brethren missionaries had an established presence in eastern Ecuador from the early 1950s, with work at the Quechua mission station at Shandia preceding the well-known 1956 Operation Auca. [3] The Tena dialect was first identified as a distinct variety when Wycliffe Bible Translators conducted surveys of what had been generically called "Jungle Quichua" to determine intelligibility boundaries for written Scripture. [1]

Language and People

Tena Lowland Quichua (ISO 639-3: quw) is spoken by approximately 20,000 people in Ecuador. [Glottolog: tena1240]

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