Project

Embracing the Forgotten

The Akunu translation project embraces a large group of related languages spoken by millions of people in a difficult-to-access region of Eurasia. The Akunu languages have been disregarded over the past centuries, defined dismissively as rural dialects of the language used by the government and in education.
Despite a lack of development of a written language, they have continued to develop into an oral language community. Akunu language research will provide the data necessary to identify mother-tongue translation needs. The goal is to provide access to the full Bible for the speakers of all the Akunu languages through chronological Bible storying and print, oral and audio-visual Scripture products.