The Bible Translator's Assistant Inc. is a faith based, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. We're a group of computational linguists and Bible exegetes who have developed software which enables missionaries and linguists to translate the entire Bible into a new language in a fraction of the time required by manual translation. We believe that every person deserves to have the entire Bible in the language that he or she understands best. Imagine how this world will be impacted when the entire Bible is available in thousands of languages.

 

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Listed below are several of TBTA's current projects.

The Kewa people of Papua New Guinea

Dr. Karl and Joice Franklin of Wycliffe Bible Translators

TBTA Inc. is currently working with Dr. Karl Franklin to help produce translations of several Old Testament books in the western dialect of a language called Kewa. Kewa is spoken in Papua New Guinea by approximately 100,000 people. Approximately 45,000 people speak the western dialect, another 45,000 people speak the eastern dialect, and 10,000 people speak the southern dialect. Dr. Franklin and his wife are members of Wycliffe Bible Translators, and they lived and worked in Papua New Guinea for 32 years. They and a team of mother-tongue translators completed a translation of the entire New Testament into West Kewa. Now Dr. Franklin and his wife live in the U.S., but he continues working with the Kewa translation team and TBTA in order to translate and publish the Old Testament in West Kewa.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Tanna people of Vanuatu

Greg and Beth Ann Carlson of Wycliffe Bible Translators

TBTA Inc. is currently working with Greg and Beth Ann Carlson who are missionaries with Wycliffe Bible Translators. They spent the last twenty years living in Vanuatu and working in a language called North Tanna. There are approximately 4,000 speakers of North Tanna, and they recently celebrated the completion of their New Testament translation. TBTA is now working with the Carlsons and the North Tanna translation committee to generate drafts of Genesis and several other Old Testament books.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An anonymous people group in Asia

An anonymous couple

TBTA Inc. is currently working with two field researchers in Asia who must remain anonymous due to the sensitive nature of their work. These researchers are working in a language that has approximately five thousand speakers. They are working with mother-tongue speakers and TBTA Inc. in order to translate the entire Bible and many community development articles into this language.