Bible translations into Basque
Joanes Leizarraga, a Catholic priest who joined the Reformation, translated the New Testament into Basque (1571).[1]
George Borrow translated the Gospel of Luke into Basque in 1838, but the translation were banned for personal sale, with only public libraries being permitted copies.[2]
produced the first complete Bible translation in Gipuzkoan Basque in the mid-19th century, but this was never published. His close colleague, , made the first translation which was published (in Lapurdian Basque) in 1859, under the auspices of the philologist Louis Lucien Bonaparte.
was published in 1983 (New Testament) and completed 1994.References[]
- ^ "Basque Bible (NT) Index".
- ^ Borrow, George. The Zincali. p. 281.
- ^ Generative studies in Basque linguistics - Page 148 José Ignacio Hualde, Jon Ortiz de Urbina - 1993 "Likewise, the recent Elizen arteko Biblia has zuen guztion arteko maitasuna."
- ^ "The Bible in Basque". Archived from the original on 2019-05-25. Retrieved 2012-04-07.
- ^ OFMCap, br. Matej Nastran. "BIBLIJA.net - the Bible on the Internet".
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