Translating the Bible into Toba...
How do we translate the Scriptures into Toba? Sometimes there are different ways to interpret the original text due to an ambiguity. In Toba, we often have to choose just one interpretation, as the ambiguity cannot be reproduced...
Chane'eja da'me chiyaqayi da'me mach'e leyalaqataĝanaĝac let'adaic, ma'le ena'uaque da'me qo'mi joote jaconaĝaguet da'me qanichoĝodenataguec jo'ne dalaĝaic 'me napacalegue da'me jo'ne 'uaechiñe.
Which means: “Therefore coming out of his own great willingness to give, now all of us already receive mercy which is new, superior to what there was originally.”
John 1:16
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