Cherokee New Testament Online
Purpose of this project
This project was initiated to compare English and Cherokee versions of the New Testament for the self education of vocabulary and basic grammer of the Cherokee language. A secondary goal to be taken upon by ambitious individuals is to transcribe the new testament into an e-text that can be downloaded free of charge.
The images have been parsed into single verse units and are viewed as single chapters loaded onto its own web page. On the first chapter of Matthew, I have transcribed into a UTF-8 font. At this time, it is not gauranteed to appear on all machines, but a large number of Linux machines currently can view the font.
Remember, this is a translated text, there is a high probability that some verses may not translate well or make perfect grammatical sense. Don't assume this to be the ulitmate reference of the Cherokee language.
Verse numbers in the syllabrary are omitted. The verse number is obvious from the image. When a substantial portion of the Cherokee New Testament is transcribed, I will write a program to assemble them (with numbers) into a downloadable e-text available from this site.
If you are wanting to submit to the site. Go here.
Also a cool parallel project, can be found here. Maybe we can share our data...
As of the beginning of April 16, I am 40% through the transcription process. I have been averaging better than 20 verses a day. I expect to have the transcription completed on December 18, 2008 although I am currently a week ahaead of schedule. At that point, the plain text version will appear on the web page.
Do not trust the transcription currently posted to be correct. On April 15, 2008, I found a serious bug that inserts additional symbol after every 'yo'. I will have to re-compile the site in order to fix it. At the same time, I hope to add some more chapters. Some might even be proofread.
Most recently updated on April 16, 2008
Book 01 | Matthew
Book 02 | Mark
Book 03 | Luke
Book 04 | John
Book 05 | The Acts
Book 06 | Romans
Book 07 | 1 Corinthians
Book 08 | 2 Corinthians
Book 09 | Galatians
Book 10 | Ephesians
Book 11 | Philippians
Book 12 | Colossians
Book 13 | 1 Thessalonians
Book 14 | 2 Thessalonians
Book 15 | 1 Timothy
Book 16 | 2 Timothy
Book 17 | Titus
Book 18 | Philemon
Book 19 | Hebrews
Book 20 | James
Book 21 | 1 Peter
Book 22 | 2 Peter
Book 23 | 1 John
Book 24 | 2 John
Book 25 | 3 John
Book 26 | Jude
Book 27 | Revelation
Online since 9/13/2006