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| Missionaries must understand a people group's culture and language, and apply what they know, in order to establish a mature church. |
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_img.jpg) | Mixed-up faith (August 6, 2009) |
| Without clear, systematic teaching, tribal people can end up combining belief systems and end up with something that is distinctly not the Christianity of the Bible. |
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_img.jpg) | Dozens of words for rice (August 6, 2009) |
| The steps toward learning a language can seem very straightforward until you actually put them into practice. Then they can be daunting, confusing and even humorous. |
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_img.jpg) | What do those two pigs mean? (August 6, 2009) |
| Cataloging the massive amount of data that characterizes a people group's culture and language will never be easy, but new tools make it easier. |
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| Planting a tribal church involves a huge number of tasks, and special software can help with a great number of them. |
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Listen to the languages
These are actual samples that missionaries used to learn tribal languages, taken from their CLAware tribal software files.
From a tribe in Indonesia
 Are you healthy?
Do you have children?
He is going to the river.
I just came from my garden.
They are coming to my house.
From a tribe in Papua New Guinea
No thanks, we do not eat it.
Thank you for this.
Thanks for helping me (with work).
What are you doing?
You all go, I will stay.
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