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

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UN MDG #2: When taught in their local language, students readily transfer literacy skills to official languages of education, acquiring essential tools for life-long learning.


   

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Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 15th Edition

A comprehensive catalog, Ethnologue: Languages of the World, alphabetically lists the 6,912 known living languages, documenting the world's complex language situations, including endangered languages. This edition uses the first implementation of the ISO 639-3 three-letter language identifiers. The Ethnologue is available as a durable, hardcover volume as well as a browsable online resource.