SIL Software Catalog
SIL has developed more than 60 pieces of software to support the work of its fieldworkers; most available to the public for free download. This on-line catalog contains product descriptions, download or purchasing instructions, and technical support information, including the latest SIL software Service Bulletins.
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Supported
SIL International is recommending that people use these products to do language work. These software products are supported by SIL International, and we provide distribution, training, and technical support.Software | Fonts, Font Utilities, and Keyboard Utilities
Software
- IPA Help
A computer program for learning to recognize, transcribe, and produce the sounds of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) - LinguaLinks Library
Electronic helps for language field work - LinguaLinks Library 4.0
Electronic helps for language field work - LinguaLinks Workshops
Managing text and lexical data - Phonology Assistant
Phonetic database system using IPA - Shoebox (The Linguist’s Shoebox)
Integrated data management and analysis for the field linguist - SIL FieldWorks BTE
Data management tool for language and cultural fieldwork. Adds FieldWorks Translation Editor to Standard Edition. - SIL FieldWorks SE
Data management tool for language and cultural fieldwork. - Speech Analyzer
For acoustic analysis of speech sounds - TECkit
A toolkit for Text Encoding Conversion - WordSurv
A linguistics computer program designed to aid in the collection and analysis of word lists - WorldPad
WorldPad is a text editor that can display text in complex scripts using Graphite.
Fonts, Font Utilities, and Keyboard Utilities
- Abyssinica SIL Font
Unicode font for Ethiopic characters - Andika Font
Sans serif, Unicode-compliant font for literacy use - Charis SIL Font
A serif, proportionally-spaced Unicode font optimized for readability in long printed documents - Doulos SIL Font
A Unicode font with a comprehensive set of characters needed for almost any Roman- or Cyrillic-based writing system (including IPA), whether for phonetic or orthographic needs. - Gentium
A Unicode font that supports a wide range of Latin-based alphabets and includes glyphs that correspond to all the Latin ranges of Unicode. - Lateef
An extended Unicode Arabic script font for OpenType™ and AAT systems - Scheherazade
An extended Unicode Arabic script font for OpenType™ and AAT systems - SIL Greek Unicode Font (Galatia SIL)
Greek Unicode OpenType fonts - SIL Hebrew Unicode Font (Ezra SIL)
Hebrew Unicode OpenType fonts