Episode 5 - The Task of Translation

There are around 7,000 languages spoken in the world today. One of the greatest barriers to a people hearing the gospel is a Bible or at least some part of the Bible in their mother tongue. All over the world countries have national languages, but often those are used to supply a common language for people to communicate in the day to day tasks of life like business, education, and government. However, the language people speak at home or that fills their internal dialogue that they contemplate their deepest thoughts is their mother tongue. These are the languages that represent those that do not have a Bible. All the world’s major languages like Mandarin, Arabic, English, Spanish and so on, have a Bible and have had for a long time.

Of the 7,000 languages worldwide around 5,000 have the full bible, portions of the Bible, or a current translation project in process to translating portions of the Bible. That leaves around 2,000 languages needing a translation project to begin. Wycliffe and other Bible translation organizations like Pioneer Bible Translators are out to change this. In episode 5 of Translators, Ben and Rose talk about this Translation effort in Tanzania.

LInks

Savaiko Wycliffe Page - https://www.wycliffe.org/partner/savaikos

Wycliffe Web Site - https://www.wycliffe.org/

Savaiko Village Church Page - http://thevillagechurch.net/outreach/missionaries/detail/ben-and-rose-savaiko/

Stats - http://www.thetravelingteam.org/stats/