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Publications, fonts and computer tools for language development, translation and research
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PrimerPro assists literacy workers by making it simpler to develop primers. It does tedious work which native authors and literacy specialists traditionally had to do themselves.
Recording speakers of the world’s languages is fun and rewarding, but keeping all the resulting files and meta data organized? Converting files to archive formats? Transcription? Painful. That’s why we built SayMore – to make common Language Documentation tasks fun and to keep you productive.
Scheherazade, named after the heroine of the classic Arabian Nights tale, was designed by SIL International for modern Unicode-based systems using OpenType for complex-script rendering.
ScriptSource is a dynamic, collaborative reference to the writing systems of the world, with detailed information on scripts, characters, languages - and the remaining needs for supporting them in the computing realm.
SheetSwiper converts spreadsheets containing linguistic data to Standard Format (for use with Toolbox, Phonology Assistant
The SIL Converters package provides tools through which you can change the encoding, font, and/or script of text in documents. It works with Microsoft Word and other Office documents, XML documents, and SFM text and lexicon documents.
SIL ViewGlyph is a font viewing program for Windows which allows you to see a font's contents through the eyes of a different application or operating system.
Solid is used to check and clean up standard format lexicon data, and optionally convert it to LIFT.
Sophia Nubian is a sans serif, Unicode-compliant font. Its primary purpose is to provide adequate representation for Nubian languages which use the Coptic Unicode character set. Since Nubian languages do not use casing, uppercase characters are not included in this font.
The Tai Heritage Pro font is a Unicode-encoded font designed to reflect the traditional hand-written style of the Tai Viet script, which is used by the Tai Dam, Tai Daeng and Tai Don people who live in northwestern Vietnam and surrounding areas.
Intended for debugging, this font contains a glyph for every character in the Basic Multilingual plane (including Private Use Area) of Unicode 6.1, each glyph consisting of a box enclosing the four hex digits identifying the Unicode scalar value.
WeSay helps non-linguists build a dictionary in their own language. It has various ways to help native speakers to think of words in their language and enter some basic data about them (no backslash codes, just forms to fill in).
WordSurv aids in the collection and analysis of word lists. It is primarily a tool for the dialect surveyor who is concerned with gaining a present-day picture of the language situation in a given area.
XLingPaper helps authors overcome typical obstacles faced when authoring linguistic papers or books by providing:
