Sometimes the people groups for whom translations are done are not literate, particularly not in their own language (often the linguists coming in to learn the language create the alphabet (orthography) and create the first written materials in the language). As a result, sometimes having recordings of the scriptures are more important than having the written versions.
One of the early ways to produce these oral versions were by phonograph records... but... how to have phonographs in remote villages? Enter the "CARDTALK":
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| The record would be turned at the appropriate speed by someone using a stick or pencil. The needle on the upright part of the cardboard transferred the sound and the cardboard triangular piece created a speaker! |
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| Ingenious, eh? |
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