The Door Swahili Bible (SWHULB)

Overview

The Swahili Unlocked Literal Bible (Biblia Takatifu) is an open-licensed Swahili translation published in 2019 by the Door43 World Missions Community. ^[1] It is part of the unfoldingWord project, which aims to provide unrestricted biblical content in every language by creating form-centric (“literal”) translations that can be freely shared and adapted. ^[2] The translation was produced collaboratively by over 50 translators and reviewers, including pastors and evangelists from Tanzania and other Swahili-speaking regions. ^[1] It is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license (CC BY-SA), allowing redistribution and adaptation with attribution. ^[1]

Language and People

Swahili (Coastal) (ISO 639-3: swh) is spoken by approximately 16,335,000 people in Kenya. [Glottolog: swah1253]

References

• [1] Swahili Unlocked Literal Bible - eBible.org. Translation metadata, contributors, and license details.
• [2] Swahili: Swahili Unlocked Literal Bible - Door43. Source text and project information.
• Swahili (1883) New Testament - Internet Archive / DBS Historical Scan. 1883 Swahili New Testament, Het Nederlandsch Bijbelgenootschap.
• find.bible entry - find.bible. Bible catalogue entry for SWHULB.
• Global Bible Catalogue: Swahili - Global Bible Catalogue. Swahili language entries.