ITEMS OF INTEREST January 12, 2009 Issue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS, the world's largest Bible translation organization, is launching the Last Languages Campaign. This historic, high-speed, high-tech effort to start a language development and Bible translation program in the remaining one-third of the world's language groups that still need one by 2025 represents a time savings of 125 years from the 1990s translation pace.

The project will bring first-time access to literacy and the Bible for some 200 million people in approximately 2,400 language groups over the next 17 years. The effort is fueled by new strategies and high-tech translation techniques, developed by Wycliffe personnel, that accelerate the pace of language development and Bible translation by three times the pace of a decade ago.

[C]ritical community development—literacy, the establishment of water purification systems, AIDS education, human rights, and community empowerment—often starts in a surprising place: with Bible translation and the language development that is foundational to it.

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