Tatar New Testament (TATIBT)

Overview

The Tatar New Testament (Инҗил, "Incil") was published in 2001 by the Institute for Bible Translation, the first complete New Testament in modern Tatar, a Kipchak Turkic language. The translation was carried out in Kazan by a team of local and foreign specialists in linguistics and biblical studies, with SIL International and the United Bible Societies contributing expertise in translation theory and biblical scholarship. [1] Tatar Bible translation has a long history: the first Scripture portions appeared in 1807, and Nikolai Ilminsky (1822-1891) directed several 19th-century translations into Cyrillic script. [1] In the Soviet era, IBT collaborated with Tatar scholar Envar Galim (1915-1988), based in New York, on a fresh translation, and Iskander Abdullin (1935-1992) from Kazan subsequently joined the project. [1] The four Gospels and Acts were published in 1985. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the new Kazan-based team completed this 2001 New Testament, and the full Tatar Bible ("Изге Язма") followed in 2015, presented in Kazan as the sixth fully translated Bible in a language of Russia. [1]

Language and People

Tatar (ISO 639-3: tat) is spoken by approximately 5,286,350 people in Russia (Tatarstan). [Glottolog: tata1255]

Publishing and Organizations

Published by IBT, [Stockholm] and Kazan. Translation type: First.

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