Dangers on the road to check translations
Zinza Translators took their team on a routine trip from village to village, putting their work to “community testing”. That first night, a guesthouse robbery left them praying for one among them…
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Category: Language: Zinza
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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Start at the beginning
Until recently, the Zinza people of Tanzania were without any Scripture in their language. They recently received and dedicated, with great celebration, the Zinza book of Genesis: Echitabu cho Kubanza, or “The Book of the Beginning”…
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Reading Glasses
Serving the Zinza community around us with reading glasses has been a great joy. One day, an older man walked three kilometres to ask our help. When he saw clearly for the first time, he smiled and shouted, “Please, bring me a Bible!”…
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Zinza calendar
Many Zinza speakers are seeing their language in print for the first time. The translation team has produced a calendar with Bible verses on each month. One woman was so proud she could read them…
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