Following are a number of back-translations of Acts 2:2:
- Uma: «Suddenly they heard something making noise from the sky, like the blowing of a big wind. That noise was audible all over in their meeting house.» (Source: Uma Back Translation)
- Yakan: «Suddenly there was a sound from the sky like the sound of a strong wind. And that sound entered the house where they were sitting.» (Source: Yakan Back Translation)
- Western Bukidnon Manobo: «And taking them by surprise was a very loud noise which they heard coming from heaven that was like the roaring of a very strong wind. This noise reverberated there inside the house where they were gathered.» (Source: Western Bukidnon Manobo Back Translation)
- Kankanaey: «When that was so, they suddenly-heard a loud-noise from heaven like a rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where-they -were-gathered.» (Source: Kankanaey Back Translation)
- Tagbanwa: «Suddenly/unexpectedly there was a sound they heard coming from heaven/sky, like the sound of a strong wind, and the house where they were gathered was enveloped in that sound.» (Source: Tagbanwa Back Translation)
- Isthmus Mixe : «Then the air suddenly made a loud noise in the house where they were sitting. It started making the noise from the sky.»
- Chuj: «Just then, something sounded from heaven, like a wind very angrily it sounds. Very angrily (loudly) it sounded entering into the house where they were sitting.» (Source for this and one above: Viola Waterhouse in Notes on Translation August 1966, p. 86ff.)
- Hiligaynon: «While they are-gathering together, suddenly there was a roar which came from heaven the-same as a strong wind, and now only roaring-noise was what they heard inside the house where they are-gathering.» (Source: Hiligaynon Back Translation)
- Mairasi: «Right while they were sitting there they heard a roar like that of a strong wind coming down from the sky. The house in which they sat pressed down on them with the roar.» (Source: Enggavoter 2004)
- Bariai: «Suddenly, they heard something like a very great wind roaring from heaven and coming, and then its sound filled the house in which they were sitting.» (Source: Bariai Back Translation)
- Kupsabiny: «Before long, some noise came from above like a whistling whirlwind and that noise covered all the house.» (Source: Kupsabiny Back Translation)
