Aymara Bible History (3)

**List: Aymara Ministry the Bible ( the Bible ) Aymara... AIMARA. "THE Aimara Indians were among the nations formerly subject to the Incas of Peru; they now dwell on the plateau of Titicaca, within the limits of that ancient empire.   The individuals of pure Aimara descent number, according to D’Orbigny, about 372,000, and the offspring of Aimara and European intermarriages amount to 188,000.   The Aimara are probably descended from the same stock as the Quichua Indians, whom they resemble in disposition, in manners, and in customs.   The languages of the two nations also bear a close affinity to each other; and it is said that about one-twentieth of the words of Aimara, more especially such as relate to religious ideas, are derived from the same roots as the corresponding terms in Quichua.    A work, containing the history of the life of Christ, was written in the Aimara language by a Jesuit, named Ludovico Bertonio, as early as the year 1612.   Nearly the whole New Testament was translated from the Vulgate into Aimara, in 1827, by Dr. Pazos Kanki, a learned Spanish gentleman of South America.   This work was conducted under the superintendence of Mr. Thomson, and with the sanction of the British and Foreign Bible Society.   The translation was highly approved by com- petent judges, and was found, on trial, to be very readily understood by all the Indians speaking the Aimara language.   An edition of 1100 copies of the Gospel of St. Luke, with the Spanish version in parallel columns, was therefore issued, as an experiment, in 1829, by the Society.   We do not hear of any further editions of any portion of the Scriptures being provided for this people."--The Bible of Every Land. (1860, Second Edition)   Samuel Bagster   [Info only: See Spanish RVG. James Thompson, a Scottish Baptist per JCT.] AIMARA.--1860   S. Bagster   [Info only: n.d. Luke 6:27-36 probably CT.]

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