From National Post-An Inuit-language bible that took 34 years to translate is now available as an app.
Last week, an Inuktitut option was added to a free bible app published by YouVersion.com, the online publishing arm of an Oklahoma-based megachurch.
The text comes from a three-decade long collaboration between the Anglican Church and the Canadian Bible Society to translate both testaments into Eastern Arctic Inuktitut.
“We’re happy to have this out of the way,” Rev. Canon Jonas Allooloo, who was with the translation team since its 1978 inception, told the Post at the time. “It’s been 34 years and we can do something else now.”
Dedicated just last June in Iqaluit, the Inuktitut bible was prepared by a small team of Inuit translators who painstakingly bridged the many linguistic gaps between millennia-old Middle Eastern texts and a language developed by Arctic-dwelling hunter-gatherers.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/04/01/the-inuit-language-bible-it-took-34-years-to-translate-is-now-available-as-an-app/
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