Translating religion and politics

[Galen Brokaw]

Richard,

For Quechua, Alan Durston has a recent book titled _Pastoral Quechua_ 
that discusses the creation of a standard Quechua by Spanish priests. He 
argues that the dialect of Quechua that became the colonial lingua 
franca in the Andes never existed as such previously. Of course, they 
weren't translating the bible back then, but they were producing other 
kinds of religious documents.

Galen



On 2/10/2011 6:09 PM, Richard Durkan wrote:
> Does anyone know of any studies of or specialists in the history of 
> Bible translation into the indigenous languages of the Americas and 
> the influence such work had on developing written languages and 
> standardized language, as in other parts of the world?
>
> I would also be interested in the experience of translators of other 
> 'sacred texts', whether religious or political (eg the Quran or the 
> Marxist canon - Marx, Lenin, Mao etc), into vernacular languages and 
> what linguistic and cultural problems they encountered by way of 
> comparison and contrast with the Christian experience.
>
> Richard Durkan
>
>
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