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.

Our linguistic creed

SIL has a linguistic creed designed to guide its members in their work around the world.

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

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.