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SIL is a faith-based nonprofit that empowers people to use their language for good. For over 90 years we have worked with communities to overcome their barriers and truly live.

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About Us Serving the world’s language communities since 1934. SIL Global is a community of local organizations that partner with minority language communities to help them use their languages to …

Software Products At SIL, we create software that helps people everywhere use their computers, tablets, and smartphones in their own language. Our software catalog features everything from …

Language Services Language Development Dict & Lexicography Lang Assessment Lang Programs Mgt. Lang Technology Literacy & Education Media Development Orthography Translation Endangered …

Training SIL offers training in fields of study that support language development such as linguistics, literacy and multilingual education, anthropology, translation, and learner-directed language and …

SIL develops language technology to help with language development and research, literacy, dictionary work, and mother-tongue translation and media production.

SIL’s commitment to scholarship in language development includes research in translation theory and practice in order to promote greater understanding of the process of translation. This research then …