Launch of SIL Bangladesh's new website

SIL works alongside language communities as they discover how to harness the power of their language to address challenges and reach their goals.

(September 2016) SIL Bangladesh announces the launch of its new website. This new site—which is mobile friendly for handheld devices—provides updated information about the on-going efforts of local communities as they achieve their development goals while retaining their ethnolinguistic identities.

Bangladesh's 41 languages bring a rich diversity to the country. SIL language development and research teams use linguistics, literacy, anthropology and translation to assist communities in their own language development.

Major sections of new site:

  • Language and Education: Language and culture are inextricably interwoven. This section addresses multilingual education, local language dictionary and orthography development, sociolinguistics survey, and adult literacy. Using or working with a language requires a good understanding of the culture that is associated with and expressed through that language.
  • Development: Community ownership is a vital key to sustainability. SIL serves to enable language communities to identify and meet their own needs.

• Learning circles: SIL Bangladesh works to train and build capacity among community volunteers, and monitors groups on a regular basis.
• Youth development: Generation Next Group promotes good citizenship by empowering young people with collaboration and problem-solving skills in order to support their communities.


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  • Links to Resources: The Language & Culture Archives benefit ethnolinguistic minority communities by preserving knowledge and resources and by providing open access to them. The archives include information that is compiled or created as the result of SIL's service to these communities in the pursuit of their language development goals.  

• Links to the most recent Annual Reports for SIL Bangladesh
• Access to the Bangladesh Monthly for reading or downloading
• Publications about Bangladesh language project documentations
• Links to SIL Global Language & Culture Archives--expanded access to academic information on SIL's language development around the world

  • About SIL Bangladesh: SIL Bangladesh assists ethnolinguistic communities in developing a series of ongoing, planned actions that ensure that their language continues to serve their changing social, cultural, political, economic and spiritual needs and goals.


SIL International has over 80 years of language development experience serving language communities around the world. As a faith-based nonprofit organization, SIL works alongside language communities as they discover how to harness the power of their language to address challenges and reach their goals.

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