The Fosters
Danny and Ranette are working in Tanzania to develop minority languages and do Bible translation work. Danny is a linguist. Ranette works on project finances and operations.
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Film is alive and well in Tanzania.
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Homestay Day 4: For all our differences, we worship one God. Amen. Or is it Amin?
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Tanzania. We are here!
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Just like Him, just as He did.
Their clothes are tattered and they walk barefoot. They’re covered in dirt and surrounded by sickness. Some of their...
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“No language group should be considered as reached until they have the Scriptures available in their mother tongue as the foundation for building sustainable Christian thought, life and community.”
Kwame Bediako, 2001
If only I could get this figured out… when the power goes off 1 phase automagically switches over to battery power. Why won’t it just work???
BBC reports on reaction to the Jamaican Creole Bible Translation.
The Economist’s Laura Spinney writes about SIL International’s role in publishing and editing the Ethnologue, a catalogue of the world’s languages. She writes, “With thousands of languages still undocumented, many of which are in danger of dying before they are written down, it looks as though these emissaries of faith will continue to find plenty of work to keep them busy.”
Did you know that SIL International is the registration authority for ISO part 639-3 which establishes codes for the representation of names of languages?
“ISO 639-3 is a code that aims to define three-letter identifiers for all known human languages.”
