Caning Bible Translation (SHJCBT)

Overview

The Caning Bible Translation contains Scripture portions in the Shatt language, titled Sorunu Kaläg na Ikä Caning, published in 2018 by Pioneer Bible Translators and distributed through eBible.org under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 license. The Shatt people refer to themselves as "Caning" (an endonym), while "Shatt" is an Arabic exonym meaning "dispersed." [1] The Shatt/Caning people live in the Shatt Hills of the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan, and the language belongs to the Eastern Daju family of Nilo-Saharan languages. [1]

Language and People

Shatt (ISO 639-3: shj) is spoken by approximately 30,000 people in South Sudan. [Glottolog: shat1244]

Publishing and Organizations

Published by Pioneer Bible Translators.

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