SIL International
Partners in Language Development

By facilitating language-based development, SIL International serves the peoples of the world through research, translation, and literacy.

Linguistic analysis resources Field linguists around the world use SIL-produced linguistic references—textbooks, publications, fonts, and software—for linguistic data analysis.

What's New Secondary palatalization in Isthmus Mixe: a phonetic and phonological account. SIL e-Books 11 Literacy and Educational Materials Primers for Ethnic Languages Primer Design Software Scenarios, discourse, and translation: the scenario theory of Cognitive Linguistics, its relevance for analysing New Testament Greek and modern Parkari texts, and its implications for translation theory. SIL e-Books 10 More What’s New

Bilingual dictionary-making seminar for fieldworkers

A three-week dictionary-making seminar began this week as part of SIL’s European Training Programme. Participants at this annual seminar are learning the basic principles and methods of making a bilingual dictionary. The focus is on designing a dictionary for a particular audience, gathering and organizing vocabulary data and using appropriate software to store and publish a dictionary.