Tanzania Projects

In Tanzania Wycliffe is presently working in 26 languages across the country. The personnel working in these programs are sharing their expertise and experience with local citizens. They are fluent in Swahili and are involved in training more Tanzanians for the task of Bible Translation.

Among the languages in which we are working, there is a language cluster project in the Mbeya-Iringa Regions and one in infancy in the Mara Region. Within a cluster project local citizens will need to be trained and coached in all aspects of a language program in order to involve and serve several languages simultaneously. Learn more in our Bantu language cluster section.

Explore the exciting work that is going on in our language projects:

1. Alagwa
2. Burunge
3. Mara Cluster
4. Mbeya-Iringa Cluster
5. Mbugwe
6. Rangi
7. Sandawe
8. Sukuma
9. Temi
   

To learn more about the languages of Tanzania check out the People and Languages section. To learn more about the languages of Tanzania visit the Ethnologue.

Mar 16, 2013 Nyiha Joy at Hearing the Bible in their Language Written by Joey M. Some of the Mbeya Cluster team visited Mbozi, in the Nyiha language area, to deliver 200 trial copies of the books of Jonah and Ruth. Towards the end of the day as people were getting tired we asked one participant to read chapter four from the book of Jonah. Read more...

Jan 16, 2013 Times are Changing. Written by Paul K. Last year, the Rangi translators decided to create a group on Facebook called,"We speak Rangi." Rangi people live all over Tanzania, many of them in cities like Dar es Salaam, Dodoma, and Arusha; many have access to the internet. Read more...

Dec 14, 2012 Why Translate the Bible into Bende? Written by Mark W. We were excited to be able to host six speakers of the Bende language, as they took the very first step towards writing their language and later starting to translate the Bible into Bende. During the week that they spent with us here in Mpanda they managed to collect nearly two thousand words in their language, which will later be analyzed linguistically to come up with a writing system that is intuitive and easy for Bende speakers to read and write. Read more...

Dec 13, 2012 All Ages Benefit Written by Lukas M. The pastor of the Nazarene church in Italazya described how happy he was to have the Word of God in Malila. He said that the Scriptures in Malila have created a big desire in his church to read the Word of God. Read more...

Dec 13, 2012 The book of Ruth sold out! Written by Andrea F. This morning, I was told by one of my colleagues that he tried to get a copy of the book of Ruth in the Safwa language, but it was sold out. "Good news," I thought, "all 100 copies that were printed in June 2011 have already been sold out." Read more...