1704: Biblical Translation Issues Aug 14, 2019

The Bible is the most translated book in the world, but this is not without its difficulties. Some languages have multiple competing translations because it each word can be such a debated issue, but this pales in comparison to the difficulty that was had translating it into further flung languages. Often this is true for translating flora and fauna, or other specific terms, but for instance, a difficulty for the translation into Taetae ni Kiribati (a.k.a. Gilbertese), spoken in a country whose highest point is 81m, was that there was no word for 'mountain' or 'hill' etc.
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