In Our Own Tongue

This link, brings you to a website with a video of the Kimyal people receiving a New Testament. In their own language. For the first time. Videos like this touch my heart and help me remember why Bible translation is so important.

Enjoy. :)

The Goal

Here is a video and article about the importance of Language Survey. The video itself talks more about the importance of doing translation period, so I'm gonna give you a run down.

Language Survey is the first step to translation. A surveyor goes out first to assess certain things about the language. Some of those things are similar to how urgent the need for a translation is, how much influence the language has, demographics of the people who speak it, etc. One a survey has been done, organizations such as Wycliffe, SIL, Pioneers, and other organizations that want to do language work know just how big the project will be and what tools they may need. Not doing language survey is like walking on the edge of a cliff blindfolded.

If you have any other questions about language survey, please ask me. :) Anything I'm not able to answer now, I'll hopefully be able to answer in the next year. ;)

~Christina