The fields are ready for harvest, Jesus said. Let's bring the harvest in!
Afrikaans http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/afrikaans.htm
Akuapim Twi http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/akuapimtwi.htm
Amharic http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/amharic.htm
Albanian http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/albanian.htm
Arabic Egyptian Colloquial http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/arabicegyptiancolloquial.htm
Arabic Standard http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/arabicstandard.htm
Armenian (Eastern, Western) http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/armenian.htm
Assamese http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/assamese.htm
Ateso http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/ateso.htm
Avar http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/avar.htm
Aymara http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/aymara.htm
Bambara http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/bambara.htm
Bari http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/bari.htm
Basque http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/basque.htm
Belorussian http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/belorussian.htm
Bengali http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/bengali.htm
Berom http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/berom.htm
Bicolano http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/bicolano.htm
Braille Version http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/braille.htm
Bukusu http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/bukusu.htm
Bulgarian http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/bulgarian.htm
Burmese http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/burmese.htm
Cebuano http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/cebuano.htm"
Chewa http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/chewa.htm
Chibemba http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/chibemba.htm
Chinese http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/chinese.htm
Cree http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/cree.htm
Creole (Haitian) http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/creolehaitian.htm
Croatian http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/croatian.htm
Czech http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/czech.htm
Danish http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/danish.htm
Dogon http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/dogon.htm
Dutch http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/dutch.htm
Ebira http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/ebira.htm
Ekegusii http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/ekegusii.htm
English http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/english.htm
Estonian http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/estonian.htm
Ewe http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/ewe.htm
Faroese http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/faroese.htm
Farsi http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/farsi.htm
Fijian http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/fijian.htm
Finnish http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/finnish.htm
French http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/french.htm
German http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/german.htm
Greek http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/greek.htm
Gujarathi http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/gujarathi.htm
Hausa http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/hausa.htm
Hebrew http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/Hebrew.html
Hindi http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/hindi.htm
Hungarian http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/hungarian.htm
Ibo http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/ibo.htm
Icelandic http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/icelandic.htm
Igala http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/igala.htm
Igede http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/igede.htm
Ilocano http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/ilocano.htm
Indonesian http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/indonesian.htm
Italian http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/italian.htm
Japanese http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/japanese.htm
Javanese http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/javanese.htm
Kalenjin http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/kalenjin.htm
Kamba http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/kamba.htm
Kannada http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/kannada.htm
Kazak http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/kazak.htm
Khmer (Central) http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/khmer.htm
Kikuyu http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/kikuyu.htm
Kiluba http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/kiluba.htm
Kimeru http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/kimeru.htm
Kinyarwanda http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/kinyarwanda.htm
Kiriol http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/kiriol.htm
Kirundi http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/kirundi.htm
Konkani http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/konkani.htm
Korean http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/korean.htm
Kumyk http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/kumyk.htm
Lango http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/lango.htm
Laotian http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/laotian.htm
Latvian http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/latvian.htm
Lithuanian http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/lithuanian.htm
Luba Kaonde http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/lubakaonde.htm
Luganda http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/luganda.htm
Lugbara http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/lugbara.htm
Lunda-Ndembu http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/lundandembu.htm
Luo http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/luo.htm
Malagasy http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/malagasy.htm
Malay http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/malay.htm
Malayalam http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/malayalam.htm
Mambila http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/mambila.htm
Mari Low http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/marilow.htm
Marshallese http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/marshallese.htm
Mongolian http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/mongolian.htm
Moru http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/moru.htm
Musselmani http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/musselmani.htm
Native American Languages http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/Native_American_Languages.htm
Navajo http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/navajo.htm
Norwegian http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/norwegian.htm
Oriya http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/oriya.htm
Pedi (Northern Sotho) http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/pedi.htm
Police Motue http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/policemotue.htm
Polish http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/polish.htm
Portuguese http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/portuguese.htm
Punjabi http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/punjabi.htm
Romanian http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/romanian.htm
Runyankole/Rukiga http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/runyankolerukiga.htm
Runyoro http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/runyoro.htm
Russian http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/russian.htm
Serbian http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/serbian.htm
Sesotho (Southern Sotho) http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/sesotho.htm
Shona http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/shona.htm
Sinhalese http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/sinhalese.htm
Siswati http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/siswati.htm
Slovakian http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/slovakian.htm
Slovenian http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/slovenian.htm
Spanish http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/spanish.htm
Sranan Tongo http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/sranantongo.htm
Swahili http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/swahili.htm
Swahili (Zaire) http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/swahilizaire.htm
Swedish http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/swedish.htm
Tagalog http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/tagalog.htm
Tajik http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/tajik.htm
Tamil http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/tamil.htm
Tarok http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/tarok.htm
Telegu http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/telegu.htm
Thai http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/thai.htm
Tibetan http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/tibetan.htm
Tigrenya http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/tigrenya.htm
Tiv http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/tiv.htm
Tonga http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/tonga.htm
Tsonga http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/tsonga.htm
Tswana http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/tswana.htm
Turkish http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/turkish.htm
Tyap http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/tyap.htm
Ukrainian http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/ukrainian.htm
Urdu Pakistani http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/urdu.htm
Vietnamese http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/vietnamese.htm
Waodani http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/Waodani.htm
Wordless Version http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/wordless.htm
Xhosa http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/xhosa.htm
Yiddish http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/yiddish.htm
Yoruba http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/yoruba.htm
Zulu http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/zulu.htm
This page with languages listed http://www.jesusislord.org/languages/languages.htm
Below this point links may not work due to pages
being under construction. Also, they reflect requests. Even if there is nothing
online for these languages, I will add them if there is a book or resource
available that can be ordered having to do with evangelism. We will in faith
believe that as the waters cover the earth, so the Word of God will come to each
one in his or her heart language. Please note that the language of many people
has not yet been learned by outsiders so that while many people already
communicate on the Internet, many people are isolated.
While I can
rejoice that as of Thanksgiving Day 2003 (November 27) this page represents
90.2% of the languages of the Internet, this is still small compared to the
number of languages of the world. God never said bring two of any animal that
is convenient to catch into the Ark. He directed Noah to bring two of
every animal onto the Ark
(Genesis 7:1-5, 9). So too we must open up the path to
God in every tongue any person speaks.
Also, many people on the Internet
must communicate in a language that is not their mother tongue. While this may
work for algebra, it is not the most direct way to the innermost being of a
person. I read about research being done to allow all languages to flow on the
world wide web as freely as English does now. I say, "Get ready for this day,
it's coming! Look ahead now, make decisions based on it, and when it happens, be
ready to move in."
The current simple method of getting languages online is
to scan as a black and white "line drawing" handwritten pages. These can be
saved as .gif files. You can experiment with the density of data (by percentage)
saved in the scan. You want it to be read clearly but with the smallest file to
achieve that. These scans make a page load more slowly than if software
for a font or script were used, but I think someone would gladly wait if that were their
language and it was something they wanted to read. And if this is the only way open, I'll
use it rather than not be able to communicate. While the search engines can't read the
text or catalog it so that it can be found by entering a search in a search engine, neither
can the page be easily blocked due to content by an entity wanting to filter out the message.
For an example of this, look at the
Amharic page.
PDF files seem to be the next step up in presentation of languages and they can be slow to open
but there are thumbnails to mark divisions in the text. Someone has gone to alot of trouble to enable
you to read something in a language almost without obstruction. I say "almost" because you
can still get an error message that the font is not loaded when you open the file. Of course,
you need Adobe software loaded on your PC. There exists now software that allows PDF files
to be edited.
The next step up is to either have the
language font loaded on your PC or have the web page load the font into your
PC's memory at the time the page is loading. There are a few lines of code that
you insert into the html code before the page coding begins. This should prevent
your loading a page with Chinese, for instance, and finding all squares or
squiggles that are not Chinese.
Copied from PC Magazine, October 28, 2003...
Sorry, I don't know how to make this show as text because it's html code but if you will click on
your task bar at the top of your screen View (click) Source (click) and scroll down through the page
about 3/4 of the way, you should see the STYLE command and be able to copy it down. Do not copy the br
enclosed by <> at the end of each line! If the last upload of this page was done by me, it should be
clear. If I was not able to use ftp successfully, I will have emailed out the page to a friend to
upload and that tends to be in Front Page Express which compacts the code so it's difficult to find things.
In that case click on Edit, click on Find, and type in STYLE. This will take you to it.
The highest step up is the one where
there is some kind of character recognition of a language which is somehow
encoded into universal characters. I'm making this up now but I'm a good
guesser. There are 261 characters in Amharic and 26 in English. Somehow these
must travel the Internet in some common-denominator code and be assembled at the
destiniation in the desired language. It would be like a VPN (virtual private
network) for each language but the path would be shared. Get ready for that day!
If you are a language speaker, be faithful to the Lord today and prepare and
learn. Get some educational skills! If you are blessed with helping, get ready
to help the language speakers be released to their task. If you are a dreamer or
a visionary, listen to the Lord and do exactly what he tells you to do even if no one understands
you. You can join Noah and others who did what they were told and are now highly regarded,
but were questioned at the time.
Technology Review Magazine from MIT, September 2003
(page 28) says what I was struggling to say above. Multiple fonts previously constructed for one language
are not standardized so communication among the existing fonts for the same language (Vietnamese, for example)
is not reliable. In addition to that, only 52 scripts have been encoded so far leaving out many
languages. The University of California, Berkeley, is attempting to add another 100 scripts using Unicode.
Unicode assigns a unique ID number to characters, symbols, and punctuation in each language so what seems strange
and difficult to us can be handled with ease by computers. This is being accomplished by recruiting and funding linguists and users of the
various scripts. This is an interesting time in history to step up to the plate if you are a language speaker.
All we need is one person who knows a language fluently to use the end product (the Unicode script or font in their
language) to construct a web site clearing pointing people to Christ. On the one hand, some of these languages may not
represent many computers or fast computers in the places where the language is spoken. On the other hand, it is not
uncommon to go to a computer center and use a computer for $1/hour in places we once thought remote.
Once a person with the means to spread the Gospel
comes to Christ and a prayer is uttered to the Lord to help that new believer reach his or her fellows, we can see
mini-pockets of people coming to Christ. They can ask for help via the Internet, and we who can easily help with
some sacrifice and intention and follow-through, can move in and provide what is needed. I have full confidence that
the Holy Spirit can join us together one by one by one by one where anyone who wants to jump in can. You may have
thought you were isolated and without help, but now you have help. You may have thought God had no assignment for
you, but now you are busy all the time, amazed that this is you and you're doing it, you're helping to complete the
Great Commission (Mark 16:15)
In December of 2003 I received The Worldwide Projects Fund Report from Wycliffe Bible Translators.
The title is "What Language Does Your Computer Speak?" The question is, "How do you type a complex
language like Burmese, when there are no computer fonts to represent its characters?" Some languages
are written in blocks rather than lines and some letters change shape depending where they apprear in
a word. 1000 complex-script languages do not have the printed Word of God in their heart language. The
progress in correcting this is 1 or 2 languages per year. Wycliffe has launched the "Non-Roman Script
Initiative" to speed things up and has the respect of the computer industry. I'm not sure what this means
but they have developed the first-ever comprehensive Latin-based Unicode font named Doulos SIL
scheduled to be released mid-2004. The font, while it can be used for multimedia projects, web pages, and email,
will be used to achieve Vision 2025, the Bible in every language group that needs one, by 2025. You
can find the link by typing in Non Roman Script
Initiative into Google.com's search bar.
