Meeting Millennium Development Goals
through local languages
Eight goals were adopted by 189 United Nations member states to be achieved by 2015.
SIL views local language-based development as essential to achieve these goals.
In cooperation with partners, the development of computer-adapted non-Roman fonts grants access to the benefits of new technology, which allows information and communications to be more widely available.
Goal 8. Develop a global partnership for development
Global partnerships among ethnolinguistic communities and national and international societies require communication and mutual understanding. Mother-tongue revitalization ensures that a language continues to serve the changing goals of its speakers and provides a bridge for the community to meet its broader multilingual goals by acquiring a language of wider communication. Language-based development facilitates the broader exchange of traditional knowledge as well as making the benefits of global information and communications technologies available.