Dai-Chin New Testament (DAOWFW)

Overview

The New Testament in Daai Chin, titled Dai Cangcim Kthai, was published in 2018 by The Word for the World International and the North East Centre for Training and Research. [1] Daai Chin is a Kuki-Chin language of the Sino-Tibetan family, and the Daai (also called Dai) are a small, majority-Christian people of approximately 30,000 living across more than 140 villages in the Chin Hills of southern Chin State, Myanmar. [2] The Word for the World is an indigenous-led Bible translation organization that works through local churches, focusing on empowering nationals to carry out translation for their own language communities. [2] The New Testament was launched in January 2019. [2] The translation is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. [1]

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Language and People

Daai Chin (ISO 639-3: dao) is spoken by approximately 37,000 people in Central Myanmar. [Glottolog: daai1236]