Hulumo was one of our landowners. Over 15years ago, Kovol people have heard that the neighboring peoplegroup had some missionaries and who have translated Gods word into their language and thought them to read and to write. Hulumo said he send a whole chicken to the missionaries begging for missionaries come to his place. We came… but he…
Being as isolated as we are taking breaks is a really important habit. After 3 months in Kovol our time came for a 2 week break out at our support centre outside Goroka.
Something we’ve been wanting to encourage living here is more playing between our children and the Kovol children. There have been a few hurdles that have made playing together with Kovol kids hard for our own children.
Bible translation is a challenging task. It’s not just a case of finding the right words to translate the words in the original.
I asked one of the LLMs (Large language model), to translate Genesis 3:1-6 for me to see what it came up with. It had access to our Kovol lexicon and grammatical notes. It came up with this for Genesis 3:1 (translated back into English):
“The wild Satan python was big big bad. This python God will make, that all the wild animals skin was big bad. Python here to the woman I will speak he said “Did God say which garden trees all i will not count them?” he said.”
Genesis 3:1 LLM version