German translation of the book of mormon lds scripture. Elder john taylor had just supervised the translation of the book of mormon into french. To every nation, kindred, tongue, and people religious. The book of mormon is published in 112 languages, and many of them are available in multiple formats online in march 1830, 5,000 copies of the book of mormon were printed in the e. From that humble beginning, today the church prints over 3 million copies a year on large web presses. Translate texts with the worlds best machine translation technology, developed by the creators of linguee. Stewart, and olivas aoy completed the translation of the entire book of mormon. Dawkins, the king james idiom in the book of mormon. Unless otherwise indicated, the translation was financed and the resulting text published by the church of jesus christ of latterday saints lds church. Expressive vocabulary of germanenglish bilingual toddlers. I have only heard of a translators edition of the book of mormon, but i would. Both, the cdi and the lds, allow vocabulary knowledge to be quantified in.
These tables show all the versions of the book of mormon that have been translated. Were the plates sometimes not in the room while joseph was translating them. After the prophet joseph smiths original translation of the book of mormon from the gold plates into english in 1829 and the return of those plates to the angel moroni, no translations from english into other languages appeared until the 1850s. This was done because those were the two main languages spoken in hamburg. Using these seers stones, joseph smith received the english translation of the golden plates, which he dictated, linebyline, to a scribe. Translation for audiologist in the free englishgerman dictionary and many other german translations. To test these hypotheses, vocabulary skills of 10 germanenglish bilingual toddlers. Joseph smith, richard dawkins, and the language of translation. Many of us who served missions before the new german translation of the book of mormon was released at that time, meaning we were using the. The church has already written a modern english version of the.
German has the same honorificfamiliar issue that spanish has. Archaic english verb endings and the book of mormon. The translators of the book of mormon deseret news. German, french, and italian scriptures now available online at lds. A look back at select milestones in the translation of the latterday saint standard works.
He left germany on 25 may 1852, the day the first edition of the german book of mormon and the second printing of the french translation were published side by side in one volume. What do we know about the method used to translate the book of mormon. Portions of the book have been translated into another 20 languages. Before a translation department was organized, numerous stalwart latterday saints contributed to the work of translating the book of mormon.
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