Canadian Bible Society – Rev. John Duff, a Presbyterian minister and president of the Newfoundland and Labrador district of the Canadian Bible Society, presented the Moravian Church in Labrador with the Inuktitut Heritage Bible at a ceremony in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Newfoundland, in January.
It is the first complete Inuktitut Bible to be published in a single volume. The previous version, completed by Moravian missionaries in 1871, contained seven volumes.
Inuktitut is the language of the Inuit who inhabit regions of Newfoundland and Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut and the Northwest Territories. The Inuit of eastern Canada use the Roman alphabet, and northern Inuit use syllabics, a script created for the Cree language and later adapted for Inuktitut.
