Dong-Kam – Chinese New Testament / Leec Menl * Lix Yadc Meik / Lix Gaeml / Lix Gax / This is Southern Dong Dialect NT / Kam people are in Guizhou, Guangxi and Hunan provinces, China

Dong-Kam – Chinese New Testament / Leec Menl * Lix Yadc Meik / Lix Gaeml / Lix Gax / This is Southern Dong Dialect NT / Kam people are in Guizhou, Guangxi and Hunan provinces, China

1^st Edition

1,136 Pages

Vinyl Bound

2006

SIZE: 18.20 cm X 13.00 cm / 506.00 g

ISBN: 3937965238 / 9783937965239 / 978-3937965239

Publisher: Verlag für Theologie und Religionswissenschaft

The Dong Nationality is one of the 56 officially recognized nationalities in the Peoples Republic of China. Kam is the autonym of this people. There is a population of 2.5 million Kam (1990 census), mainly in Guizhou, Guangxi and Hunan provinces. The Dong language consists of two dialects: Northern Dong (with a few hundred thousand elderly native speakers) and Southern Dong (spoken by ca. 1.4 million people). This New Testament edition embodies a parallel translation of the Holy Scriptures in the Southern dialect of Dong and in Mandarin Chinese. The Dong text, based on the Greek New Testament, was translated by a team over a period of nine years. The Chinese text is a revision of the 85-year old Chinese Union Version (Hèhébĕn Version). An extensive appendix of more than 300 pages encompasses a Dong-Chinese wordlist of items actually occurring in the New Testament, a Dong word index, a Chinese word index, an introduction to the Dong script (appropriate for literacy applications), six Middle East maps and a list of dialect correspondences.