Language matters
By Max Sahl | Wycliffe Today October 2019 This year is the International Year of Indigenous Languages. To celebrate the occasion, the Royal Australian Mint has released a ...
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Bible beginnings in the back of Burke
By John Tan Boorong was the first known Indigenous Australian to have substantial exposure to the Bible. She was sick with smallpox in 1789 when Governor Philip’s men took her to Sydney for ...
Communities of grace
|Wycliffe Today – March 2019| Graham Scott is the Principal Executive Officer of the Summer Institute of Linguistics Australia (SILA). He and his wife, Ellie, have been ...
Editorial from the CEO
For many people around the world, the ability to switch between two or more languages is a normal fact of life.
Musings from one who has lost her heritage language
Through my years of involvement with Wycliffe, I have become aware of the many factors that contribute to an individual or a community consciously or subconsciously giving up their heritage language.
Meet Elsi
Elsi, from Kalimantan, Indonesia, speaks six languages. Last year Elsi came to the Wycliffe National Centre at Kangaroo Ground to improve her English.
Serving the forgotten language communities in a time of change
In the world of Bible translation, the linguistic and social landscape looks very different from the situation 64 years ago when the Australian mission community started Wycliffe in Australia as a specialist mission to support Bible translation and training in linguistics.
Why do I work in a ‘dying’ language?
Where I work, the youth don’t speak their heritage language – they’ve ‘shifted’ to using a regional dialect of the national language.
Jesus was multilingual
Jesus of Nazareth functioned in a multilingual environment. He most likely spoke Aramaic, the language of his home and neighbourhood, and appears to have had good command of biblical Hebrew when reading the Scriptures.
Iranian Christian diaspora serves Farsi speakers worldwide
It is in the context of the Ayatollah’s Iranian revolution of 1982, and the subsequent persecution of Christians that the translation of the modern Farsi Bible was birthed. As Christians fled as refugees and added to the multilingual Persian diaspora in the UK, a new opportunity presented itself.
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