North Tanna – Spoken in Vanuatu

North Tanna is an Austronesian language spoken in Vanuatu by approximately 5,000 people. In 1999 ATW worked with Greg Carlson to generate an initial draft translation of Ruth and Genesis 39.

Then experiments were performed to determine the quality of the Genesis 39 draft. Those experiments indicated that the draft generated by ATW approximately quadrupled the productivity of the mother-tongue translators.

Additional experiments indicated that the edited ATW draft was of the same quality and contained the same information as the manually translated text.