Originally ‘clustered’ together with Simbiti (a related language), the 30,000 people who speak Kiroba “have such a strong group identity” that linguists have begun to investigate the need for a specially adapted translation. Their latest research study began with a week collecting Kiroba words in the village of Nyabange…
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As the Jita translators work, they find themselves grappling with the imagery in Revelation. In English, one word can describe ‘seals’ on both scrolls and foreheads. But there is no single word in Jita which can be used that way. So the team launched into research…
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“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…
Read MoreWhen we understand how a Sandawe sentence, thought, or story is structured, when we can compare our translation of Scripture to other ‘natural’ text in the language, then we can use what we learn to make God’s word in Sandawe more natural and easy to read…
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