RE: [aymara] Aymara and Western Culture

[Ken Beesley <Ken.Beesley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: "Alex Condori" <lista2@iname.com>

> > I'm from a religious background myself (Mormon) and I worked
> > for a company (ALPS, later ALPNET) that, though quite secular itself, 
> > grew out of an earlier machine-translation project at Brigham Young 
> > University that had definite religious motivation.
> 
> Did not the Brigham Young University develop a
> proficiency test on aymara for foreigners, or 
> something alike?

Alex,

At one time, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
(Mormons) sent missionaries to the Aymaras.  And they
translated some books into the language.  I do not know if they
are still active in this area.  I'll try to find out.  I don't
know anything about a proficiency test.


> 
> > So I am sincerely interested in religious motivations behind
> > a variety of machine-translation projects.
> 
> Well, perhaps we are far from reliable Bible
> machine-translations yet (I think that a man-made
> Book of Mormon translation is available in
> Aymara, am I right?)

I've seen a partial translation, in the old CALA orthography.

Ken



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