Communities developing resources and competencies for using their languages
Foundational understanding for language development work of all kinds
Publications, fonts and computer tools for language development, translation and research
SIL offers training in disciplines relevant to sustainable language development.
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HearThis - Bible recording made easy.
HearThis provides a do-it-yourself alternative for communities wanting to get translated scripture text into their own language.
IPA Help is a useful, simple tool for learning to recognize, transcribe, and produce the sounds of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). You can use IPA Help to do the following tasks:
SIL provides many Unicode keyboards which work with Keyman (or other systems, like KMFL, which support the Keyman source format).
Lateef is an extended Arabic script font named after Shah Abdul Lateef Bhitai, the famous Sindhi mystic and poet. It was designed by SIL International for modern Unicode-based systems using OpenType for complex-script rendering.
LIFT Tools is a set of assorted utilities for LIFT files.
Ling Tree is a tool that lets you describe a linguistic tree and produce a graphic image of it.
Here is a possibly easier way to key trees online and use the results in Ling Tree.
The Lepcha script is used by the Lepcha language of South Asia. Lepcha has been in Unicode since Unicode 5.1.
Mondulkiri is a Unicode-compliant font family for the Khmer script.
Smart and simple backup for language development workers.myWorkSafe aims to provide a zero-configuration backup system for someone primarily using computers for doing language development work.
The Limbu, or Kirat Sirijonga, script is used by around 400,000 people in Nepal and India. This Unicode-encoded font has been designed to support literacy and materials development in the Limbu language.
The Nuosu SIL Font is a Unicode font for the standardized Yi script used by a large ethnic group in southwestern China. The font was formerly named SIL Yi.
Padauk is a fully capable Unicode 6 font supporting all the Myanmar characters in the standard. Thus it provides support for minority languages as well, in both local and Burmese rendering style.
Paratext allows you to input, edit, check, and publish a translation of the Scriptures, based on the original texts (Greek, Hebrew), and modeled on versions in major languages.
Pathway processes language data from FieldWorks and Paratext into attractive and suitable formats for draft printing or publishing.
An expert system that produces a consistent PC-PATR grammar which covers the vast majority of syntax for a given language. It also produces a draft of a grammar write-up based on the user's responses.
Parser and Writer for Syntax (PAWS) has two purposes and two outputs:
PdfDroplet is a simple little tool which makes it delightfully easy to make booklets! Create your document as normal, without worrying about booklet layout issues.
Phonology Assistant helps you discover and test the rules of sound in a language. Provided with a corpus of phonetic data, it automatically charts the sounds. There are a wide range of search capabilities to aid your analysis process.
With Phonology Assistant, you can do the following:
Phonology Template Editor and Search Tool assists with the phonological analysis of a Bantu language.
The tool's features allow you to:
