OMT (Oral Mother Tongue)
EVERY LANGUAGE, TONGUE & TRIBE
WHAT IS OMT TRANSLATION?
Oral Mother Tongue (OMT) is the first language a person learns and can communicate most deeply in. OMT Translation is a movement that brings the Bible to people in their own spoken language, using fluent native speakers to create audio recordings that can be shared through a microSD card.
Instead of reading, they hear the Bible in their own spoken language.
Using this new method, it only takes a laptop and some mics.
Google records that there are over 7,000 known languages spoken in the world today. But the problem is, Google cannot determine how to differentiate between a language and a dialect.
Dialects are countless versions of a language that differ depending on the region and area it is spoken. People on the field are discovering there are so many more languages that we don’t even know about.
On the frontlines of Oral Mother Tongue discovery and translation, we estimate that the global number of actual languages is likely closer to between 30,000-40,000.
Instead of trying to translate the Bible from its original language, OMT translation takes the language and dialect and translates it into the mother tongue using simple recording equipment.
