page_title: Bible translations into the languages of Indonesia and Malaysia
section_title: Tombonuo (2002)
hierarchical_section_title: Bible translations into the languages of Indonesia and Malaysia / Malaysian languages / Tombonuo (2002)
caption_attribution_description: English: The New Testament in the Tombonuo language of Malaysia.
context_page_description: Malaysian and Indonesian Bible translations have a lot of common history up until the modern era. Apart from the shared Malay language which historically was the lingua franca of the Malay archipelago and forms the basis for the national languages of Indonesia and Malaysia today, portions of the Bible have been translated into a variety of indigenous languages in the region.
  The translation of the Bible into the Malay language was one of the first extant translations of the Bible in an East Asian language.
  Albert Cornelius Ruyl, a Protestant first translated the Gospel of Matthew in 1612 into the Malay. This was followed by the translation of the Gospel of Mark in 1638. The full Canonical Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles was revised and published in 1651 by Justus Heurnius, the chaplain of Batavia. The main early Translators of the Bible into the Malay language were Melchior Leydekker, H. C. Klinkert, and W.G. Shellabear. Leydekker was appointed to the ministry of the Dutch churches at Batavia in 1678.
  The 3 volume Leydekker translation in the Jawi script was published by J. Willmet in 1824.
context_section_description: The Bible in the Tombonuo language (Ethnologue: txa) of northern Sabah  known as the Tinongaran Nu Kinoringan was published in 2002 by the Bible Society of Malaysia.
caption: Tombonuo New Testament (2002)
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