The Bible has been translated into almost 500 languages. Last year (2012) saw the completion of the first translation of the entire Bible into Inuktitut, the language of the Inuit people. The translation was performed by native Inuktitut speakers rather than European or American missionaries.
Rather than being a literal translation, the Inuktitut Bible is based on "functional equivalence." The Bible uses the nineteenth century syllabic script introduced by the Anglican missionary Edmund Peck. The script gave a written form to the ancient language.
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