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Volume V,
Issue 2
March,
1980
that
We
truly
It has
we
were
very
system completed
close
to
having
our
We
Madang for seven weeks to serve as buyershipper while Ron Augsburger returned to the
lives
proves
that
the prayer
requests we
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viewpoint.
Those
called consultants.
special
"someones"
are
For
the last
two weeks I
two
others
best and
from
most
productive
students
in the
group.
with
forward getting us
One of SIL's
best
consultants in
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SHARRAN'S
The
workshop
lators.
was
not
I t also included
will
be
a big help when we begin our
literacy program.
The most beneficial by-product of their
course was the excitement
and
feeling . of
tive alphabet
we
have
developed
and
are
proposing.
They wrote and made the first
books in the Kire language!
And what's more
when they brought them back to Garati, some
of those who can read Pidgin were able to
read (with a little help) those books.
I
was so
teachers
nationals
said
who
excited
instructed
that
SHAKINGS
as
all
they.
of
the
is.
wife.
tells us
God.
Immediately, Marakus
became
serious.
He said,
long time
Lord
then
and
village life.
I
now know how to weave the
billums the ladies in the village make. I ' l l
and let
her teach
man."
about God,
them.
because
Marakus
would
desire
to learn
But
do
to
glad
know
that
now he had "feasted" with God,
asked forgiveness,
and God would no longer
remember his sins.
Pone is daily hearing
about God, and she hangs on God's every word.
It thrills my soul to hear her pray as she
bubbles out praise and thanks to our God.
Marakus and Pone are now planning to go to
Bible School next year so Marakus can become
a pastor to his own people.
Meanwhile, God
has work
in the
village on a Friday,
and
we
for
him to do.
is
working
in
the
lives
of our
people.
Hutty,
Irai's
together
with
Marakus
lots
of children.
like
this
may
only be a beginning.
I'll
to enter heaven.
Jesus said He is
routine
was
jobs
while
his
daddy
at a workshop in Madang.)
is the fridge
work
better.
is
gone,
I hoped that
was on
no sooner
flames!
j finally
persuaded
Sup
to help
me
carry the
then
the house.
to Jesus.
settle
down
and
to
burns to heal.
We miss the cold drinks and
fresh meat, but we are thankful that God
true!
our
prayers,
us.
God is good.
kerosene refrigerator^
It
had
We
fault in our
not
been
We are thank
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Voltime IV..
July.
Issue 2
WhewS
What a grind!
What frustration!
I have for all prac
of
the Summer
1980
Institute
of
cere desire
course because
in English.
of their sin
to do the work.
Meanwhile, we
Daranpu will be
repeating the
system that
people.
August.
will
Representatives
have
been
be
easily
of our
consulted
in
read
language
the
by the
group
choice
of
i, o, u, and f.
The "n" represents the
sound of "ng" as in the word "sing". However
rather than occuring at the end of words as
is usually the case in English, it also
occurs frequently in the middle and at the
beginning of words in the Kire language.
The language is further complicated by
the fact that . nearly all of the consonants
ing it
for the
first time
Please pray
that
money it
P.B.T.
will be able
needs to
P.B.T.
to raise the
members
houses at
which will en
to attend the
needed
SHARRAN'S SHARINGS
can be
"pre-nasalized '
"pari"
instead of "Mpari",
stead
of
"di".
The
periencel
diaeresis
what the
kids and
I needed.
We
our
week
at
we
flew
to
us at Ukarumpa
to help us at
the workshop.
We set new
language.
attend all
year because
we can
at Ukarumpa,
biggest need,
We all see
it as our
watch their
relationship
first
with our
verb
second means
can
be
feature
nasalized,
over
nasalized.
of
our
language
so we
the
will be
vowels
if
time after
April of 1981.
using a
they
are
("gu pi"),
but
instead
call
yourself
an
_animai_ia_ tall_C'gu_piJu
The meaning of words can also be changed
puff
of air
It can be
following the
That's
say it without
the difference
between
a "P" being
The dif
is the dif
I had
Well,
seeing you all some
is
We look forv&rd to
means
"stir (the
Another
described
Lae
food)".
nasalized vowels.
just
in a
which results
can and
do combine
in many
(and more)
different com
We continue
to
binations
to
language.
Then remember to pray for us as
we continue to leam how to speak and under
stand all that is spoken to us in this new
Sharran
language.
to
form
the
words in the
Kire
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