1. What if you couldn’t read the Bible
in your own
language?
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2. Being able to read the Bible in
our own language is something we often take for granted,
but that’s not an option
for many people.
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3. For many people around the world, the Bible is not available in their heart language.
If it were, I’d be
out of a job.
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4. Introductions Niger Republic, West Africa
I’m doing Bible translation for the Woɗaaɓe Fulani people in
Niger Republic, West Africa
Hi, I’m Jean Baumbach
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5. The Woɗaaɓe Fulani There are approximately
one million Fulani in Niger,
with about half being
speakers of the eastern
dialect (the one I’m
working on translating).
100,000 to 200,000
of these are Woɗaaɓe,
about 500 of whom
are Christians.
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6. Bible Translation- what is it?
Bible translation is taking God’s
Word and expressing it in
another language.
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7. Mohamane and Keejo and I work together daily.
The Translation Team
Of course, I’m
not doing this
alone-
I have two
Fulani men
who work
with me.
Mohamane and Keejo and I work together daily.
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8. The Process: Step One
Our translation is a little different from others
in that it’s being done in cooperation with the
Fulfulde Harmonization Project. There are many
dialects of Fulfulde, so a suggestion was made
that we work together and use a computer
program to make transfers from one dialect to
another.
Because of this, our first step is to take the
rough draft we get from the computer and
smooth things out so it sounds better and
makes sense in our Fulfulde. (Fulfulde is the
language of the Fulani people).
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9. Step Two: Revision
Next we meet with Tambaya to go over the book in more detail.
Tambaya has had training as a pastor and can also make use of the resources available in French.
Tambaya
Keejo
Mohamane
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10. Step 3: Village Testing Keejo, Mohamane, and I travel to different
towns or camps to make sure the translation
is clear and understandable in other areas
and to other Fulani clans.
Since most people
can’t read, Keejo and
Mohamane take turns
reading through the
book verse by verse
while I ask questions
about each verse.
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11. Step 4: Translation Committee
Next we go to Tassa Ibrahim to meet with the translation committee. The committee members help us make the translation flow better and check for any errors.
My home at Tassa Ibrahim
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12. Final Step: Consultant Check
The last step is to meet with the translation
consultant who goes over each verse in detail
to make sure it’s correctly translated and
makes sugges-
tions on how
we can improve
the translation.
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13. Progress Right now we have almost half of
the New Testament translated into Woɗaaɓe
Fulfulde.
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14. How You Can Help
We have two major needs in order to complete the translation of the Bible into Fulfulde: prayer and financial support.
Prayer is a very important part of the process. We need your prayer support in order to complete the translation. Without your prayers, I couldn’t keep working in Niger.
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15. Financial support: Finances are also needed to maintain the translation. These are used to pay the salaries of my co-translators, to cover the travel expenses as we do village testing, and to attend seminars to help us be better translators. The cost is approximately $1100/month.
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16. The Next Step
If you would like to be involved in this ministry, you can contact me by I send out quarterly prayer letters and some updates in between.
If you would like to be a financial partner, you can send contributions to:
SIM-USA
PO Box 7900
Charlotte, NC
(704)
Please make your checks payable to SIM-USA and note
that it is for the Fulfulde Literacy and Translation
Project # NE
Thanks for your help!
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