Данышпан Сүлейменнің нақыл сөздері / The book of Proverbs in Kazakh language / Қазақстан Киелі кітап қоғамы / Kazakh Bible Society 2018 / Hardcover

Hardcover 2018

ISBN: 9789965561641  /  978-9965561641

ISBN-10: 9965561648

PAGES: 116

PUBLISHER: Kazakh Bible Society

LANGUAGE: Kazakh

The Book of Proverbs of the wise Solomon, Son of David, King of Israel in Kazakh language.

Work on translation of the Bible into the Kazakh language began with the work of Charles Fraser of the Scottish Missionary Society. Fraser's translation of Matthew was published in 1818 (this was based on H. Brunton's Karass translation, and modified for Kazakh), and the New Testament in 1820 by the Russian Bible Society. J. M. E. Gottwald, a professor at Kazan University, revised it, and this was published in 1880 by the British and Foreign Bible Society in Kazan, and it was republished in 1887, and 1910. George W. Hunter, of the China Inland Mission in Ürümqi, considered this translation to be "a good translation, into Astrahan-Turki", he does not seem to have considered it to be Kazakh. Darlow and Moule say that it was intended for Kyrgyz in the neighbourhood of Orenburg, and the language was sometimes called "Orenburg Tatar". According to Rev. W. Nicholson of the Royal Asiatic Society in St Petersburg this translation was intended for "The Kirghese hordes—Great, Little, and Middle, as they are called—[who] occupy various regions in Southern Siberia, Central Asia, and west of the Caspian Sea." George A. King says Fraser's translation was into the language of the "Western Kirghiz or Kirghiz-Kazak, though they disown the name Kirghiz.