Meyah New Testament (MEJTBL)

Overview

The Meyah New Testament was published in 2013 by Yayasan Sumber Sejahtera, with a copyright spanning 1997-2013 reflecting the extended translation period. [1] Meyah is an East Bird's Head language spoken by approximately 15,000-20,000 people in the Manokwari, Masni, and Merdei sub-districts of the Bird's Head peninsula in West Papua, Indonesia. [2] Linguistic groundwork for the translation was laid by Gilles and Gloria Gravelle, SIL linguists who published a Meyah phonology in 1991 and a comprehensive Meyah-Indonesian dictionary, and who worked from the SIL base in Manokwari. [3][4] Gilles Gravelle completed a full linguistic description of the Meyah language as his PhD dissertation at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2004. [2]

Language and People

Meyah (ISO 639-3: mej) is spoken by approximately 14,800 people in Indonesia, Northwestern Papua. [Glottolog: meya1236]

Publishing and Organizations

Published by Yayasan Sumber Sejahtera.

References