Keith Beavon's Blog

This blog records events in the life and work of Keith Beavon.

5/22/2012

Progressing toward the end of Genesis in Njyem

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Terese Noumabouck and I are having a good time translating Genesis into Njyem. We are now lacking only chapters 28:20 through the end of 36....
3/18/2012

Disciple or initiate?

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We have been attempting to adapt Badwe'e or Nzime Bible translations into Njyem. We find that the word we think means "disciple...
2/12/2012

Corpus of parsed texts

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Njyem was once an unwritten language as well as lacking a Bible translation. We are passionately interested in solving both of these conditi...
2/06/2012

Genesis in Njyem

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Deaconess Therese NOUMBOUK and I are going back to the origins of God's self-revelation to man, translating Genesis . It is sad but true...
1/28/2012

The catechism in Njyem

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People are more familiar with the word "cataclysm" than "catechism". That's where we have gotten as a culture. Sad! ...
1/14/2012

Map of the Njyem area

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The map shown here uses wavy lines for rivers and straight ones for roads. Ngoyla is shown as "Meko'o melɛl", which means ...
1/13/2012

Jesus is the Avenger

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The Njyem have determined that the right way to characterize Jesus is their "Avenger". That is the translation of mikuna-bʉr . Thi...
1/12/2012

Contrafactuals

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When a linguist seeks to break out of mediocrity and make headway into expressive power in a new-to-him/her language, often (s)he will look ...

Yesus-Krist, nye é Mikuna-bʉr

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Mʉr, nye ɨ lejala ne lekœꞌ œ́, mpu Nsɛm di ɨ lekwɛl yi, nebe é, Nsɛm a ntɨh mwɔn we é, nye ntaa nse kwɨr bʉr tʉŋʉ lebyeb, nse kœb é, yi k...
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Keith Beavon
Yaounde, Central Province, Cameroon
What motivates me is 1.) the joy of being a blood-bought, born-again, Spirit-filled, Bible-believing temple of Yahweh. And 2) that there are many who aren't for no reason but their lack of linguistic resources. They cannot hear the message yet. Mary and I hope to address some of their needs, responding to their requests. We welcome others joining our team through becoming members of Wycliffe Bible Translators.
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