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The Bible in the Lun Bawang language (Ethnologue: lnd) known as the Bala Luk Do' was first translated and published in 1982 by the Bible Society of Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei. It was the first whole book published in the language of the Lun Bawang people who reside in the interior border region between Sabah , Sarawak , and Kalimantan .
This was the last Bible translation in the Malay language that saw common use in the newly independent states of Malaya and Indonesia. 1974: Perjanjian Baharu (TMV) Malaysian Malay: A new translation of the New Testament using the principle of dynamic equivalence published by the Bible Society of Singapore, Malaysia and Brunei (BSMSB). 1987
The Digital Bible Library lists over 240 different contributors. [1] According to Wycliffe Bible Translators, in September 2024, speakers of 3,765 languages had access to at least a book of the Bible, including 1,274 languages with a book or more, 1,726 languages with access to the New Testament in their native language and 756 the full Bible ...
The Bible Society of Malaya prior to 1948 was a branch of the British and Foreign Bible Society (BFBS). [2] The BSSMB existed in this form until the Malaysian auxiliary established itself as the Bible Society of Malaysia [3] in 1986 and the BSSMB was renamed the Bible Society of Singapore and Brunei.
Bible translations into Catalan; Bible translations into Celtic languages; Bible translations into Chamorro; Bible translations into Cherokee; Bible translations into the languages of China; Bible translations into Coptic; Bible translations into Cornish; Bible translations into Cree; Bible translations into creole languages; Bible translations ...
Ilah (Arabic: إله) is the word for God even in Christian Bible translations. Many early Bible translators, when they came across some unusual Hebrew words or proper names, used the Arabic cognates. In the newer translations this practice is discontinued. They now turn to Greek names or use the original Hebrew Word.
William Girdlestone Shellabear (1862–1947) was a "pioneer" [1] scholar and missionary in British Malaya (today, part of Malaysia). He was known for both his appreciation of Muslim society and also his translation of the Bible into the Malay language. [2] [3]
The Bible was translated into Arabic from a variety of source languages. These include Coptic, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and Syriac. [1] Judeo-Arabic translations can also exhibit influence of the Aramaic Targums. Especially in the 19th century, Arabic Bible translations start to express regional colloquial dialects. The different communities that ...