Kitab Bidoyoh Bau

Bau Bidayuh New Testament

This is the Bidoyoh Bau Language New Testament!

A team in Bau has been working for the last 11 years to produce this New Testament, and now the Bible Society of Malaysia has done the relevant consultant checks and has approved it for publication.

We expect that the printed version will be available by the beginning of 2019.

Some things to take into consideration about the spelling of this New Testament:

The glottal stop ‹'› is an important feature of the Bidayuh Language phonology. For instance, the word ‹sindo'=mother› is different in meaning and pronunciation from the word ‹sindok=near›. There is also another important word ‹de› that is used as relativizer (who, whom, which is), and it sounds different from the word ‹de'›, which is the short form of ‹daang=in›. Because of this symbol being used as glottal stop, you will find that the quotation marks are different than English, so ‹› «» function as ' ' " ", so that they are not mistakenly taken as glottal stop ‹'›

Thanks for reading, ENJOY!

The Bidoyoh Bau Bible Translation Team!

PS: The Old Testament is being translated, and will be ready in a few years, but we'll add the different book that get approved to the app. Also there is a plan to include the audio recording of the whole New Testament, so most probably the app will include the recordings by the end of 2019. You can email any comments to [email protected]