Eurasian Gateway Language
Leading the way to other languages
Your gifts provide resources for more than 540 language groups to translate the Bible
Eurasian Gateway Language
Equipping the Eurasian gateway language church network to translate Biblical content, exegetical translation helps, and translation training materials into an open-licensed format for use by minority language translators who speak the region’s dominant gateway language as a second language. Equipping the Eurasian network to train and equip minority language networks to use these resources to produce trustworthy scripture for themselves.
Project Overview
The primary focus of this project is training and equipping the Eurasian gateway language church network to train and equip minority languages to produce their own scripture. Three people groups are included as part of the project, and the distribution strategy and targets are in their control.
People Groups in the Area
540
People Groups Directly Impacted
3
Potential impact
296,000,000 people
Countries Impacted
Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
SCRIPTURE for 1,000+ PEOPLE GROUPS
Partners need your help as they mobilize, train and equip local church members to reach the unreached.
Content
Open-licensed Bible translation resources empower the global church.
Tools
Software equips church networks to execute our Gateway Languages Strategy.
Training
Trained believers train others to do Church-Centric Bible Translation.
Content
In this phase of the Eurasian Gateway Language Project, we will focus on translating 10 Book Packages of Scripture and Bible translation resources, translating Open Bible Stories and training more translators to do this work.
Book Packages
Books of the Bible — and all the necessary resosurces needed to accurately translate them — are being translated into Russian. Once a Book Package is complete, it can be used to translate that book of the Bible into hundreds of languages connected to Russian!
Exodus
1 Samuel
2 Samuel
Ezra
Nehemiah
Esther
Obadiah
Luke
Acts
Ephesians
1 Timothy
2 Timothy
James
1 John
2 John
Open Bible Stories
Fifty Bible stories spanning Genesis to Revelation. The team will produce four Audio OBS packages and reach more than 75,000 people.
TBD
People Reached
In Progress
KEY IMPACT
Tools
Four of our most important translation and translation checking tools are being localized into Spanish.
Tools
Our partners are localizing four translation and translation checking tools. These tools help Bible translators swiftly and accurately translate Scripture.
tC Create- translationCore
- translationStudio
Training
Our Latin American Spanish team is training translators from other people groups to use unfoldingWord tools to translate the Bible and check their work themselves.
Workshops
Our workshops teach fundamentals of accurate Bible translation and translation checking.
> 45
Workshops Hosted
Completed
Individuals Trained
Outside of seminars, individuals and small groups get coaching online or in-person.
> 18
Individuals Trained
In Progress
KEY IMPACT
Join the Movement
Your investment will help empower church networks worldwide to translate the whole Bible into their ethnic languages for the very first time.