Pastor Cung Cung agreed and became the translator, working closely with BI senior translation consultants Ross Hodsdon and others on the New Testament project. BIMS asked Cung Cung to help translate a reliable and understandable Bible for the Hakha people, based on biblical languages instead of an English paraphrased translation.
Hoi Cung Tum, better known as "Cung Cung," who had started a church intending to train the Hakha Chin in the Word of God. Later, Bibles International Myanmar Society approached the educated and trained independent Baptist pastor, Rev.
Paul Cung Bil Thawng, as the first translator. Though formerly animists, 65% of the Hakha Chin profess Christianity, 35% of whom claim to be evangelical, a result of the evangelization efforts of American Baptist missionaries who first arrived in the region in 1899.īibles International adopted the Hakha Chin New Testament project in 2002, with a Hakha pastor, Rev. Their language family, the Kuki-Chin, is part of the Sino-Tibetan family.
The Hakha Chin-speaking people number between 177,000 and 210,000.
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