Ticuna New Testament (Brazil) (TCAWBT)

Overview

New Testament in Ticuna (PE:tca:Ticuna). The Ticuna New Testament is the result of decades of translation work by Lambert and Doris Anderson, missionaries affiliated with Wycliffe Bible Translators and the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL). [1] The Andersons first made contact with the Ticuna people in the 1950s and dedicated their lives to learning the language and translating Scripture; orthographic work was initiated by SIL/Instituto Lingüístico de Verano linguists based at Cushillococha, Peru, beginning in that decade. [2] The Ticuna (also called Magüta, and also spelled Tikuna or Tukuna) are one of the largest indigenous groups in the Amazon Basin, with an estimated 50,000 to 60,000 speakers spread along the Solimões/Amazon in the tri-border region of Brazil, Peru, and Colombia; it is the most widely spoken Indigenous language in Brazil (about 52,000 speakers per the 2022 census). [3] Ticuna is generally classified as a language isolate, not conclusively linked to any other language family, with tentative ties proposed to the extinct Yuri language. [3] This edition, "Tupanaarü Ore i Tórü Cori ya Ngechuchu ya Cristuchiga," circulates in both Brazil and Peru editions. In 2023, the complete Ticuna Bible was dedicated at a ceremony in Cushillococha, Peru, with more than 1,000 Ticuna people in attendance — seventy years after the Andersons' initial contact. [2] Work is ongoing to adapt the translation for the Brazilian Ticuna dialect. [2]

Language and People

Ticuna (ISO 639-3: tca) is spoken by approximately 48,580 people in Central Brazil. [Glottolog: ticu1245]

Publishing and Organizations

Created by Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc. Translation type: First.

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