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Every Tongue

Mark and Laura Woodward, supporting Bible translation in Tanzania

A Kisi Alphabet

Last year I had the opportunity to visit a village in the Kisi community on the eastern shore of Lake Nyasa in southwest Tanzania. Although to be honest there is not much of a shore to the lake on that side – for mile after mile the towering Livingstone mountains drop straight into the lake, with just room for one or two houses at the water’s edge.

Posted in Wycliffe, Mark, Africa, Bible translation, Language, Tanzania Tagged Kisi, Lake Nyasa, Linguistics, Ludewa, Mbeya, Njombe, Orthography Leave a comment

Mbeya Planning Meetings

After spending a week in Dar es Salaam and a week in Dodoma, we flew to Mbeya for planning and review meetings with the team serving 13 language communities throughout Mbeya, Iringa and Njombe regions. This project, with the potential to impact 2.5 million speakers of the 13 languages, was started in 2003 and currently has around 70 staff working…

Posted in Wycliffe, Mark, Africa, Bible translation, Language, Tanzania Tagged Bena, Bible translation, Bungu, Iringa, Kinga, Kisi, Linguistics, Literacy, Malila, Manda, Mbeya, Ndali, Njombe, Nyakyusa, Nyiha, Orthography, Pangwa, Safwa, Sangu, Vernacular media, Vwanji 1 Comment

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