{"id":561,"date":"2011-01-26T11:42:32","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T15:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/?p=561"},"modified":"2011-01-26T11:42:32","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T15:42:32","slug":"question-11-how-is-the-agutaynen-language-different-than-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/2011\/01\/26\/question-11-how-is-the-agutaynen-language-different-than-english\/","title":{"rendered":"Question #11: How is the Agutaynen language different than English?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Agutaynen language often will use vagueness.\u00a0 For example, often an Agutaynen will come to us in the village and ask, \u201cMy um<\/span> is in need of some um<\/span>.\u00a0 Could you please give us some um<\/span>?\u201d\u00a0 If this happened to you, would you give them some um<\/span>?\u00a0 We assume you wouldn\u2019t until you found out what um<\/span> is.\u00a0 First of all, the Agutaynen is very vague to \u201csave face\u201d.\u00a0 If you say \u201cno\u201d right away, then you haven\u2019t offended the Agutaynen.\u00a0 But in order to find out the need, we need to ask the Agutaynen several questions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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An Agutaynen teenager with a plate full of cooked rice.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u00a0Usually, we start by asking them what is needed.\u00a0 The Agutaynen will then tell us, for example, the need is rice.\u00a0 We have now figured out one of the ums<\/span>.\u00a0 Then we ask who needs rice to find out the other um<\/span>.\u00a0 The Agutaynen shares that their family has no rice.\u00a0 So the second um<\/span> is their family.\u00a0 So now we have deciphered all the ums<\/span> and we know what the Agutaynen was saying: \u201cMy family<\/span> is in need of some rice<\/span>.\u00a0 Could you please give us some rice<\/span>?\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n

Sometimes all this vagueness can become tiresome, but at other times we can use it too.\u00a0 For example, it would be very natural for us to use this um<\/span> word whenever we forget or don\u2019t know a word in Agutaynen and this would be natural for the Agutaynen hearer.\u00a0 However, we never want to use the um<\/span> word when we are sharing the Gospel message with the Agutaynens.\u00a0 We don\u2019t want to be vague but very clear when we share that salvation is by Jesus Christ alone.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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An Agutaynen reading the New Testament in their own language.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Another good example is the New Testament translation in Agutaynen.\u00a0 What would you think if you read John 3:16 like this, \u201cFor um<\/span> so loved the um<\/span>, that he gave his only um<\/span>, that whosoever ums<\/span> in um<\/span>, will not um<\/span>, but have um<\/span> um<\/span>?\u201d\u00a0 Hopefully you agree with us that the littlest words, even pronouns like \u201che\u201d, are very important when proclaiming the Gospel message to the Agutaynens.<\/p>\n

Lastly, we want to thank each of you for your um<\/span> and um<\/span>.\u00a0 In case you don\u2019t speak Agutaynen, we want to thank each of you for your encouragement<\/span> and prayer<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Agutaynen language often will use vagueness.\u00a0 For example, often an Agutaynen will come to us in the village and ask, \u201cMy um is in need of some um.\u00a0 Could you please give us some um?\u201d\u00a0 If this happened to you, would you give them some um?\u00a0 We assume you wouldn\u2019t until you found out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/stephen-jordan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}