What we do
Indigenous Languages
Indigenous languages carry identity, memory and community life. Our work treats them as the natural home of Scripture, not an obstacle to it.
Language and culture
Why indigenous language ministry matters
Nigeria is home to hundreds of languages. Many communities use one language for school or trade and another at home, in prayer and in grief. Scripture reaches furthest in the second of these.
We work with local speakers to understand dialect differences, oral forms and community communication patterns before translation begins, and we keep that knowledge in community hands.
Preparing for more languages
Our project and resource records are structured so that language-specific Scripture libraries, language profiles and speaker profiles can be added as the work grows — including support for content in English, indigenous Nigerian languages, French and others in future.
- Language respect
- No language is treated as too small to carry Scripture.
- Oral tradition
- Story, proverb and song are recognised as legitimate carriers of meaning.
- Community knowledge
- Local speakers are the authority on their own language.
- Documentation
- Language data is recorded carefully and stored with consent.
- Capacity
- Local translators and speakers are trained for long-term work.
- Future languages
- Our systems are built to hold many languages, not one.
Languages in our records
Languages currently named in project records
This list is generated from the ministry's own project records and updates automatically.
Loading languages…