Getting down to business

All hiking and scenery and coffee aside, what was the purpose?
In every village we went to we did various types of survey to understand the sociolinguistic situation.
Esther took word lists (170 plus 20 sentences) that usually lasted about three hours.














Bonnie did interviews with church and school leaders and also recorded a few stories that we used to test peoples understanding of different speech varieties.














I did interviews asking what language they speak and who speaks like them. As well as questions about their culture and where they travel to and what the marriage patterns are (who goes where and comes from where).














Right now we are back in the office (yeah!) trying to sort out all the information we gathered and determine the need for Bible translation in the three languages we surveyed.