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.

Millennium Development Goals
and language

Language-based development enables communities to achieve the eight Millennium Development Goals adopted by the United Nations. Also available: French, Spanish, Portuguese.

What's New

Bantu Orthography Manual SIL e-Books 9
Indigenous groups of Sabah: an annotated bibliography of linguistic and anthropological sources
- SIL e-Books 7 Part 1: author index
- SIL e-Books 8 Part 2: ethnic group index; topical index
Eight articles added to SIL Forum for Language Fieldwork

More What’s New

A leadership course for literacy trainers in Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guineans are training to initiate and sustain mother-tongue education and literacy programs for all ages. The SIL-developed comprehensive course is graduating its 12th two-year class, bringing the total graduates to 215.