Interactive translation status map of Uganda
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In Uganda Wycliffe is presently working in four languages. These languages comprise over 860,000 speakers. What a potential there is for changed lives! The personnel involved in these projects are qualified nationals who are full of vision as to what can happen when the Bible is translated into their languages. They are using state of the art technology and are being equipped to do quality work as they are assisted by the linguistic, translation and literacy expertise of Wycliffe members.
Discover the fascinating things that are happening in our language projects in Uganda:
To learn more about the languages of Uganda itself check out the People and Languages section. To learn more about the languages of Uganda visit the Ethnologue.
Speakers of Kumam are very much in the minority in Uganda. Numbering around 112,500, they account for less than one percent of the population. There are very few published texts in their language.
"But why should my people not be able to read or hear God's Word in their mother tongue?" Lady Justice Mary Maitum began to wonder more than ten years ago. Her vision to open up the Scriptures to fellow speakers of Kumam became a reality on March 30, when the Kumam New Testament was launched to great rejoicing.
When checking the Gospels of Mark, Paratext (software for editing and checking Scripture) expert Martin D worked with the Gwere and Nyole translators. They were able to uncover hundreds of errors that otherwise might have been missed before the Gospels were sent to the printer. These languages have no available spelling checkers. Martin uses his knowledge of the grammar of these languages to customise checks that leverage the power of the computer to display possible errors.
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Sometimes when you get so impressed with what God is doing you have to make up new words to help describe it. In our three-week literacy and Scripture promotion workshop for Ugandan languages God did incredible things.
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