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Partners in Language Development

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

Reduce child mortality UN MDG #4: The child mortality rate is reduced when essential health information is presented to ethnolinguistic communities in their own language.

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

Word order in Toposa: An aspect of multiple feature-checking

An Eastern Nilotic language spoken in Southern Sudan, Toposa is highly inflectional and derivational, with a basic VSO word order. This 213-page book, both data-oriented and theoretical, is valuable for students of syntactic theory, language typology and discourse.