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Article Title: THE TRANSLATION OF KRISTOS AS KRISTO IN THE DANGME MOTHER TONGUE TRANSLATION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT VISITED
by Jonathan E. T. Kuwornu-Adjaottor

Abstract:
The study contends that Greek word Kristos should be translated and spelt Klisto in the Dangme New Testament because the Dangme orthography has no �r;� the nearest in sound is �l.� The motivation for the study stemmed from the writer�s exploration of how to make the study of New Testament Greek �boredomless� and relevant to students. Comparing the way New Testament Greek is generally taught - memorizing rules and paradigms of words, without knowing how to apply the knowledge, with the methodology used at three institutions in Ghana � teaching New Testament Greek with the Ghanaian mother-tongue translations, and the results of the usage of such a methodology, the study brings to the academic community, an innovation in the teaching of New Testament Greek; thus adding to knowledge in the discipline. The study recommends that New Testament Greek in Ghana/Africa should be taught with Greek New Testament texts in contexts and the mother-tongue translations of the New Testament. This will allay the fears of students who get scared at the start of the study of New Testament Greek, and motivate them to get interest in the discipline from the unset. Further, the methodology will help students to apply what they learn to their study of the New Testament as a whole. Language is an indispensable resource in human capacity building; thus the findings of this study will be a great asset to Linguists who want to locate orthographies in socio-cultural contexts.

Keywords: kristos, klisto, dangme orthography, dangme mother-tongue translation of the new testament, applied and social linguistics

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