Bible translation

Forty-six countries have five or more languages still needing Bible translation to begin, totalling 1,142 languages. YWAM has people in every one of those countries — including mother-tongue speakers for about 200 of the languages.

In awe. That’s how I often feel when our team is working on the translation of God’s Word into the Kisun* language, in the Caucasus region.

A translation team in Tanzania was working on translating “Garden of Eden,” but the Swahili word the translators had considered just wasn’t adequate.

A 2019 pilot project in the Philippines resulted in digital books for the blind and visually impaired.

“Russia is big, and our office is not,” says Wycliffe Russia’s Vlada Dibirova. “We send churches information, news and videos. And also, we constantly contact pastors . . . to pray for them and the church’s needs.”

Five real-life reasons why human translators, not computer programs, are needed for clear, accurate and natural Bible translations.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Bible translators in Cameroon are creating and distributing public health information about the disease, which one language community calls “pneumonia with thorns.” The Cameroon Association for Bible Translation and Literacy (CABTAL), a Wycliffe partner organization,…

Bible translation teams use local speakers to check their work—some of whom have never attended church—and the errors they find can be funny.

Six representatives from SIL, Wycliffe’s key partner organization, recently attended the Language Technologies for All Conference (LT4All) at UNESCO Paris from Dec. 4-6, 2019. The SIL team joined participants from major technology platforms including Amazon, Google, Facebook, IBM, Hanson Robotics,…

During a translation workshop in Papua New Guinea, team members in one project struggled to translate Peter’s description of false teachers in 2 Peter 2:17