Kjell Magne Yri, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Kjell Magne Yri

Norwegian linguist

Date of Birth: 05-Nov-1943

Place of Birth: Hareid, Møre og Romsdal, Norway

Profession: priest, missionary, translator, linguist, Bible translator

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Kjell Magne Yri

  • Kjell Magne Yri (born 5 November 1943) is a Norwegian priest, linguist and translator. He hails from Hareid.
  • He was interested in linguistics at an early age; during Norwegian classes in secondary school he read books in Greek and Esperanto.
  • During his spare time he read Swahili.
  • He combined the language interest with religious studies after a friend encouraged him to become a bible translator, eventually graduating from the MF Norwegian School of Theology with the cand.theol.
  • degree in 1970.
  • He also minored in Greek at the University of Oslo, as well as studying Latin and Hebrew.
  • He was eventually given an assignment to translate the New Testament for the Norwegian Lutheran Mission, who found the official Norwegian translation too liberal.
  • He was occupied with this translation from 1968 to 1973.In 1973 he travelled with his family to work as a priest in Ethiopia.
  • He learned both the Amharic and Oromo languages, and was later sent to work in the Sidama Zone.
  • While staying here, he translated the New Testament into Sidamo.
  • It took twelve years, and he was finished in 1988.In 1989 Yri reached what he describes as a "crossroads" in his life.
  • He left the Norwegian Lutheran Mission, and took up studies again at the University of Oslo.
  • He ultimately took the dr.philos.
  • degree in 1996, and in 2000 he was appointed as an associate professor.
  • From 2002 to 2007 he conducted a large research project on languages in Ethiopia.His marriage broke down in 1989, but he later remarried, this time to a Chilean linguist.
  • This prompted Yri to learn Spanish, and to attempt to learn Mapudungun.
  • Yri resides in Nittedal, and from 1998 to 2002 he was the local church organist there.

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