We trust this finds you well and enjoying Spring! There\u2019s just something about being able to open up the windows and let in the sunshine. Our jasmine is blooming on the fence and it smells incredible. (And for you poor souls who are still up in the cold, hang on it shouldn\u2019t be much longer!)<\/p>\n
We’ve been explaining our ministry focus on literacy and some of the key elements that keep us busy. In our last post we\u00a0looked at the importance of missionaries finding a good orthography and how alphabets are not simply \u201cone size fits all.\u201d\u00a0(Now if you aren\u2019t much into grammar, this part might be boring to you\u2026but don\u2019t you dare skip it! Keep reading so you know how to pray for us and the missionaries working with all the different languages).<\/p>\n
After a good alphabet has been chosen, and before teams begin actually writing their literacy program, they need to organize all the linguistic information (this is the grammar stuff). We need lists of all the vowels and consonants, as well as diphthongs (two vowels that make one sound; such as boy, eye) and consonant clusters (consonants that blend into one sound; like gl, str, or \u2013ng). We need to know which letters occur most frequently in the language because those letters would give us the most useable words for brand new reader to practice reading. We\u2019ll need a list of every punctuation mark used in the language. Again, languages are not \u201cone size fits all.\u201d Quotations can be shown in many different ways. \u00bfJust how will questions be marked?<\/p>\n
These lists are used by the missionary teams and consultants to make sure that every possible thing that will be written in the language is covered in the literacy materials. We want the people to be able to read God\u2019s Word with great comprehension! And even punctuation is part of really understanding what is written. So that’s how it all fits together – with the goal of having great readers with great understanding of the Most Important Message ever written!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We trust this finds you well and enjoying Spring! There\u2019s just something about being able to open up the windows and let in the sunshine. Our jasmine is blooming on the fence and it smells incredible. (And for you poor souls who are still up in the cold, hang on it shouldn\u2019t be much longer!) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[657,652,653,654],"class_list":{"0":"post-880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ministry","7":"tag-changed-lives","8":"tag-literacy","9":"tag-read","10":"tag-write","11":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jerry-mcdaniels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}