SIL International: Partners in Language Development

SIL International
Partners in Language Development

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

Endangered Language Groups

All around the world, language groups and their cultures are becoming extinct. One of SIL's goals is to help preserve languages. Learn what an endangered language is, and what can be done to preserve and/or develop these dying languages.

What's New

Phonology Assistant 3.0.1
Effective orthographies topic of new SIL Electronic Working Paper
Five new SIL Electronic Survey Reports

More What’s New

New version of Phonology Assistant software released

SIL has released a new and more versatile version of its software to assist linguists investigating the sound systems and patterns of the world's lesser-known languages.