Word: cakchiquel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...primitive groups by devising a written form of their language and then teaching them to read it; of leukemia complications; in Lancaster, S.C. A college dropout, Townsend found his calling in Guatemala in 1917 when he tried to sell Bibles written in Spanish to Indians who spoke only Cakchiquel. He learned the language, then during the next twelve years, with no formal linguistic training, developed an alphabet that he used to write a Cakchiquel translation of the New Testament. In 1935 he co-founded the nonprofit, nonsectarian Wycliffe Bible Translators Inc., which has repeated the process for 90 previously illiterate...
...take it seriously: some 30 local villagers had already been kidnaped and murdered by right-wing death squads. Told that his own name was on a right-wing hit list, the red-bearded missionary reluctantly fled the village, where he had lived and worked for 13 years among the Cakchiquel Indians, and returned to his native Okarche, Okla...
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