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46 relations: Africa, American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Aster Ganno, Bemba language, Bible society, British and Foreign Bible Society, Chewa language, Chinua Achebe, David Jones (missionary), Dinis Sengulane, Dynamic and formal equivalence, Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission, Forum of Bible Agencies International, Gospel of John, Gottlieb Viehe, Hans Paludan Smith Schreuder, Heinrich Schmelen, Henry Hare Dugmore, Herero language, Igbo language, Johann Ludwig Krapf, John Colenso, Kamba language, Khoekhoe language, Malagasy language, Martti Rautanen, Mijikenda language, Nama people, Namibia, Newton Adams, Onesimos Nesib, Oromo language, Ovambo language, Robert Moffat (missionary), Samuel Ajayi Crowther, Sotho language, South Africa, Swahili language, Thomas Dennis (priest), Tiyo Soga, Tswana language, William Percival Johnson, Xhosa language, Yao language, Yoruba language, Zulu language.
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).
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American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) was among the first American Christian missionary organizations.
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Aster Ganno
Aster Ganno (c.1872–1964) was an Ethiopian Bible translator who worked with the better known Onesimos Nesib as a translator of the Oromo Bible, published in 1899.
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Bemba language
The Bemba language, ChiBemba (also Cibemba, Ichibemba, Icibemba and Chiwemba), is a major Bantu language spoken primarily in north-eastern Zambia by the Bemba people and as a lingua franca by about 18 related ethnic groups, including the Bisa people of Mpika and Lake Bangweulu, and to a lesser extent in Katanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, and Botswana.
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Bible society
A Bible Society is a non-profit organization, usually ecumenical in makeup, devoted to translating, publishing, and distributing the Bible at affordable costs.
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British and Foreign Bible Society
The British and Foreign Bible Society, often known in England and Wales as simply the Bible Society, is a non-denominational Christian Bible society with charity status whose purpose is to make the Bible available throughout the world.
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Chewa language
Chewa, also known as Nyanja, is a language of the Bantu language family.
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Chinua Achebe
Chinua Achebe (born Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe, 16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic.
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David Jones (missionary)
David Jones (July 1796 – 1 May 1841) was a pioneering Welsh Christian missionary to Madagascar.
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Dinis Sengulane
Dinis Salomão Sengulane (born 5 March 1946) is a Mozambican Anglican priest.
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Dynamic and formal equivalence
Dynamic equivalence and formal equivalence, terms coined by Eugene Nida, are two dissimilar translation approaches, achieving differing level of literalness between the source text and the target text, as employed in biblical translation.
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Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission
The Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission (FELM, formerly The Finnish Missionary Society; Suomen Lähetysseura ry; Finska Missionssällskapet rf) is a Lutheran missionary society formed on January 19, 1859, in Helsinki, Finland.
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Forum of Bible Agencies International
The Forum of Bible Agencies International is an alliance of more than 25 international Bible Agencies and other missions organizations which provides access to the Bible and encourages its use worldwide.
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Gospel of John
The Gospel According to John is the fourth of the canonical gospels.
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Gottlieb Viehe
Friedrich Wilhelm Gottlieb Viehe (March 27, 1839 – January 1, 1901) was a German missionary of the Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft (Rhenish Missionary Society) and an early settler in present-day Namibia.
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Hans Paludan Smith Schreuder
Hans Paludan Smith Schreuder (18 June 1817 - 27 June 1882) was a 19th-century Norwegian missionary who developed a close relationship with both the Zulu and British authorities.
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Heinrich Schmelen
Reverend Johann Heinrich Schmelen, born Johann Hinrich Schmelen (7 January 1776 – 26 July 1848) was a German missionary and linguist who worked in South Africa and South-West Africa.
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Henry Hare Dugmore
Henry Hare Dugmore (1810–1896) was an English missionary, writer and translator.
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Herero language
Herero (Otjiherero) is a language of the Bantu subfamily of the Niger–Congo group.
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Igbo language
Igbo (Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student's Handbook, Edinburgh), is the principal native language of the Igbo people, an ethnic group of southeastern Nigeria.
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Johann Ludwig Krapf
Johann Ludwig Krapf (11 January 1810 – 26 November 1881) was a German missionary in East Africa, as well as an explorer, linguist, and traveler.
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John Colenso
John William Colenso (24 January 1814 – 20 June 1883) was a British mathematician, theologian, Biblical scholar and social activist, who was the first Church of England Bishop of Natal.
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Kamba language
Kamba, or Kikamba, is a Bantu language that is spoken by the Kamba people of Kenya.
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Khoekhoe language
The Khoekhoe language, Khoekhoegowab, also known by the ethnic term Nama and formerly as Hottentot, is the most widespread of those non-Bantu languages of southern Africa that contain "click" sounds and have therefore been loosely classified as Khoisan.
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Malagasy language
Malagasy is an Austronesian language and the national language of Madagascar.
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Martti Rautanen
Martti (Martin) Rautanen (10 November 1845 Tikopis (Тикопись), Ingria – 19 October 1926 Olukonda, Namibia) was the pioneer of the Finnish Mission in Ovamboland, Namibia.
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Mijikenda language
Mijikenda is a Bantu dialect cluster spoken mostly in Kenya, with about 100,000 speakers in Tanzania.
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Nama people
Nama (in older sources also called Namaqua) are an African ethnic group of South Africa, Namibia and Botswana.
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Namibia
Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia (German:; Republiek van Namibië), is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean.
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Newton Adams
Newton Adams (August 4, 1804 – September 16, 1851) was an American missionary and doctor who worked in southern Africa.
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Onesimos Nesib
Onesimos Nesib (Oromo: Onesimoos Nasiib; Amharic: ኦነሲሞስ ነሲብ; about 1856 – 21 June 1931) was a native Oromo who converted to Lutheran Christianity and translated the Christian Bible into the Oromo language.
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Oromo language
Oromo (pron. or) is an Afroasiatic language spoken in the Horn of Africa.
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Ovambo language
The Ovambo language, Oshiwambo, is a dialect cluster spoken by the Ovambo people in Angola and northern Namibia, of which the written standards are Kwanyama and Ndonga.
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Robert Moffat (missionary)
Robert Moffat (21 December 1795 – 9 August 1883) was a Scottish Congregationalist missionary to Africa, father-in-law of David Livingstone, and first translator of the Bible into Setswana.
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Samuel Ajayi Crowther
Samuel Ajayi Crowther (–31 December 1891) was a linguist and the first African Anglican bishop in Nigeria.
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Sotho language
Sotho (Sesotho; also known as Southern Sotho, or Southern Sesotho, Historically also Suto, or Suthu, Souto, Sisutho, Sutu, or Sesutu, according to the pronunciation of the name.) is a Southern Bantu language of the Sotho-Tswana (S.30) group, spoken primarily in South Africa, where it is one of the 11 official languages, and in Lesotho, where it is the national language.
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South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.
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Swahili language
Swahili, also known as Kiswahili (translation: coast language), is a Bantu language and the first language of the Swahili people.
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Thomas Dennis (priest)
Thomas John Dennis (1869-1917) was an Anglican priest who was the main translator of the Bible into the Ibo language.
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Tiyo Soga
Tiyo Soga (1829 – 12 August 1871) was a South African journalist, minister, translator, missionary, and composer of hymns.
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Tswana language
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William Percival Johnson
William Percival Johnson (12 March 1854 in St Helens, Isle of Wight – October 1928 in Liuli, Tanganyika) was an Anglican missionary to Nyasaland.
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Xhosa language
Xhosa (Xhosa: isiXhosa) is a Nguni Bantu language with click consonants ("Xhosa" begins with a click) and one of the official languages of South Africa.
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Yao language
Yao is a Bantu language in Africa with approximately two million speakers in Malawi, and half a million each in Tanzania and Mozambique.
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Yoruba language
Yoruba (Yor. èdè Yorùbá) is a language spoken in West Africa.
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Zulu language
Zulu (Zulu: isiZulu) is the language of the Zulu people, with about 10 million speakers, the vast majority (over 95%) of whom live in South Africa.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_translations_into_the_languages_of_Africa
