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.

Translation principles

Translators garner the meaning of words in one language and reproduce that meaning with natural flow in sometimes very different characteristics of a second language.

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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

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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.