Note: N20 Edward Frederick Sywulka was born June 20, 1911, in what was then German East Africa to missionary parents. He attended Rift Valley Academy, John Brown University, received a B.A. from Columbia Bible College in 1932, and an M. A. in linguistics from the University of Oklahoma in 1948. He was Cameron Townsend's first student at the initial Camp Wycliffe in 1934, and later attended the Summer Institute of Linguistics in 1941 and 1947 and taught there in 1951 and 1954. He joined the Central American Mission in 1934 and devoted almost seventy years to the Mam Indians of Guatemala. His work has included not only Bible translation but also evangelism, church planting, Bible teaching, and medical, dental and agricultural work. He helped Dudley and Dorothy Peck complete the initial translation of the New Testament into Mam. He finished the translation of the New Testament into the Huehuetenango dialect of Mam in 1967, and the revision of the Ostuncalco Mam New Testament in 1973. At the age when many men retire, he began to study Hebrew at Dallas Theological Seminary in order to begin translating the Old Testament into Mam. The entire Bible in Mam was dedicated in 1993. In all, some 10,000 persons attended the dedication ceremonies. Ed was able to make a trip back to Africa to visit his mother in her later years, and Ed and Pauline both made a study trip to Israel, designed to give them greater understanding for the Old Testament translation. On August 15, 1997 Edward was granted an honorary doctor's degree from the Universidad Mariano Galvez of Guatemala City. In 2004 Ed and Pauline moved to Kingsburg, CA. to reside with their daughter Anna Marie. ----- The SIL Bibliography lists 3 entries for this author. Sywulka, Edward and Patricio Ortiz M.. 1977. "Alfabeto Mam." Sywulka, Edward. 1966. "Gram�tica mam." Sywulka, Edward. 1966. "Mam grammar."
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