SIL International: Partners in Language Development

SIL International
Partners in Language Development

SIL serves language communities worldwide, building their capacity for sustainable language development,
by means of research, translation, training and materials development.

Academic training

Training prepares language development workers in many countries to do quality linguistic fieldwork, literacy and translation.

What's New

See the February 2010 section of What's New on SIL’s Web Site for a list of our newest online publications
ISO 639-3 2009 series change request outcomes

More What’s New

Ethnologue: Languages of the World—2009 edition

The most comprehensive reference volume of its kind, the Ethnologue catalogs the world's 6,909 known living languages. With color maps, statistical summary tables and a bibliography, it is available both in hardcover and online.