Tayta Diosninchi Isquirbichishan

The Tayta Diosninchi Isquirbichishan is the Bible in Huallaga Huánuco Quechua, the variety spoken in the Huallaga River valley, in the Huánuco region of central Peru. Copyright is 2011, held by Wycliffe Bible Translators, which does not publish the team's names. The 2011 record is that of the printed New Testament; the text eBible distributes, and that you find here, also includes the Old Testament.

There is no public account of the method, but the text shows a meaning-based translation, close to community speech. Genesis 1:1 opens by explaining: at the beginning, when nothing yet existed, God made heaven and earth. Spanish words such as Dios and syëlu (heaven) come in already adapted, the way people say them, and Psalm 23 calls God michimajnë, "my shepherd".

It serves those for whom this variety is the language of the heart, who want to read the Bible the way they speak at home. The honest limit is reach: Quechua is not a single language, and speakers of Southern Quechua, from Cusco or Ayacucho, will find this text quite different from their own. Spelling follows the Spanish model (c, qu), not Peru's official alphabet with k, which may feel odd to anyone who learned to write Quechua at school.

The rights holder released the text under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license. It allows anyone to read and share it for free, as long as the text stays unaltered and is not used commercially. That is why the Huallaga Huánuco Quechua Bible is here in full to read for free on Midvash, but is left out of the public API, audio and AI features, which would go beyond what the license allows.