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

Phonetic teaching and learning tool

For linguists studying an unwritten language, IPA Help software enables the learner to hear, produce and transcribe the speech sounds of natural languages.


   

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Preserving minority languages—focus of conference on language and literacy

A conference in Indonesia, Heritage language literacy development in Southeast Asia, addressed the need to form strategies to preserve the nearly 4000 local languages in Asia.