Partners build on each other’s strengths at event in Thailand
(October 2014) SIL recently invited representatives from fifty-five faith-based partner organizations to dream and plan together face-to-face at an event in Bangkok, Thailand.
(October 2014) SIL recently invited representatives from fifty-five faith-based partner organizations to dream and plan together face-to-face at an event in Bangkok, Thailand.
(September 2014) The 44th annual Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics (CALL) recently convened at Leiden University in the Netherlands. About 100 participants from Africa and around the world came together for the 25-27 August event. Several SIL linguists were among those who presented research.
(September 2014) SIL Executive Director Freddy Boswell congratulates colleagues Hessel and Coby Visser, who recently received the royal honors of being knighted into the Dutch Order of Orange-Nassau. "The Vissers’ contribution to the Naro language community has been exemplary,” Boswell said. “They represent the servant heart and attitude that we hope will mark all of SIL’s work.”
(August 2014) SIL International Publications has just released a new resource: Kankanaey: A Role and Reference Grammar Analysis, by Dr. Janet L. Allen. Kankanaey is spoken in the northern Philippines, mainly in Benguet Province. This is the first published work to provide a detailed description of the language.
(August 2014) Students from across Mexico spent the month of July in the city of San Luís Potosí for an intense four-week course in applied linguistics. The SIL-directed Diplomado en Lingüística Aplicada was hosted by the Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí.