Author: SIL Tanzania

Young translation project gains momentum

The Mbugwe language community is excited to be involved in translation and literacy work. Mofulu and Shishe are Mbugwe speakers, and have served as translators for several years. But their relatively new team faces many challenges…

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People love “Sandawe Radio”

Handheld solar MegaVoice players are loaded with Scripture audio in local languages as fast as Translators can record it. In central Tanzania’s Sandawe language community, one woman who received a MegaVoice told the team she praised God for the blessing of her “Bible radio”…

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Times are changing.

Like many language communities in Tanzania, the Rangi live “all over”. The team’s Translators wanted more people to know about their work, so they launched a public group on social media. They quickly learned that interest was high…

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Enquiries for Mother-Tongue Education

For children who speak Burunge at home, the challenge of adding Swahili and English at school is a familiar one. One of the local pastors, now a Burunge Bible Translator, reflects on how early literacy may be one of the greatest “added benefits” to his work…

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Roadside customers

After an exhausting but fulfilling day checking Genesis with a group of community volunteers, we were on the rough road back to Kondoa. As I drove along, a man waved to me to stop the car. He wanted to buy our new calendar! Soon another man stopped us. Then another…

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Breakthrough: Long Vowels

“The Zinza word ‘obubasi’ might be right for us to translate the word ‘prophet’ in Scripture. Or so we thought, but everywhere we go: blank stares. Then the Zinza translator accidentally stretched out the ‘a’ vowel…

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