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Forging New Pathways


Graduate students find new ways to join community development efforts. The people of Papua New Guinea (PNG) use more languages across their Melanesian island nation than...

 

Connecting the Dots


Linking data between similar languages accelerates translation efforts in the Philippines. When members of the Ayta Mag-Antsi community heard the book of Ruth read aloud...

 

Harvesting Words


In a noteworthy initiative, the Kenga language community of Chad is set to release their very first dictionary later this year, marking a significant milestone in...

 

A Small Start


Indonesian children show their natural learning potential despite enormous challenges. For more than fifteen years, the doors to the public school in Kosarek village*...

 

Ethnologue Scholarship Program


New program supporting linguists from local language communities selects first scholarship recipient. Intuitively it seems clear that those best positioned to contribute...

 

Tanzanian Sign Language Textbook Project


BILAT is a Deaf organization in Tanzania. In the last several years they have taken a special interest in Deaf children by providing help for Deaf school children who...

 

Habits for a Healthy Life


School literacy program in a local Nepali language helps people of all ages make healthier choices. Bibek’s teachers once thought he was a naughty child—willful and...

 

Nyiha New Testament Project Brings Community Together


Richard Yalonde serves as Team Leader for the Mbeya Cluster Project of Tanzania. This project includes over a dozen language development and translations teams,...

 

Celebrating New Books for Children in Mali


Parents around the world want to see their children reading for pleasure, knowing it opens doors to education and opportunities. But millions of children have few to no...

 

Mobile Schools for Nomad Children Wins Top UNESCO Award


The Bakarwal Gujars are nomadic pastoralists living on the southern side of the Himalayas in Pakistan and India. Following migratory routes handed down through the...

 

Building Awareness Against Human Trafficking


Deaf teachers create sign language books to educate vulnerable communities about the dangers of exploitation. Deaf students in Latin America gathered for a book...

 

Stepping into Smaller Shoes


Linguistics students shift perspectives to support learning in early education. In Peru’s capital city of Lima, university students from across South and Central America...

 

From Isolation to Inspiration


A local team tied together by faith and family translates the Bible into Mexican Sign Language (LSM). Try as he might, Guillermo could not connect with his family. Born...

 

Over the Airwaves


Radio drama helps African communities address Ebola concerns. Local staff buzzed with excitement as the Minister of Health for the Democratic Republic of the Congo...

 

Education For Life


A Story of Innovation & Collaboration in Papua New Guinea Koen den Hartogh, an SIL language technology consultant working in Papua New Guinea, had a simple idea in...

 

Ethnologue Welcomes New Program Director


Caribbean born linguist and influential educator, Jill Paterson-Charles, begins role as Ethnologue program director. On the small Caribbean island of Grenada, a young...

 

The Language Journey


Philippines workshop offers communities decision-making tools in determining the future of their languages. In May 2023 SIL consultants facilitated a five-day language...

 

The Skill to Show and Tell


Media production training gives participants a powerful, creative platform to share their stories. Years of experience in training staff from radio, TV and language...

 

Language and Poverty


What is Poverty? The popular notion of poverty is that it is a deficit, a state of not having enough material goods nor the means to acquire them. Yet scholars of...

 

Emerging Voices in Media


SIL training in media production helps aspiring communicators develop valuable new skills. As advancements in digital media continue to accelerate, more widely creative...

 

SIL Ethiopia Celebrates 50 Years of Language Work


In March SIL Ethiopia celebrated its 50 years of accomplishments in partnership with both governmental and nongovernmental organizations. The Ethiopian Evangelical...

 

Language for a Healthy Tomorrow


Schoolchildren in Nepal are tackling social issues and creating change in their community. Early learning in the mother tongue helps young students reach a better...

 

Cameroon Book Creation Contest


In an effort to inspire more enthusiasm around writing and reading in local languages, SIL Cameroon hosted a book creation contest for the local public. In cooperation...

 

Words Unread


Literacy programs in Peru deepen access to Scripture. In 1988 a dream came true for members of the Cusco Quechua faith community—the Bible published in their very own...

 

Local Citizens Become SIL Interns


In the English and Portuguese-speaking areas of Africa where SIL works, a new internship program has begun. These interns are young, professional men and women from...

 

Language Changes Tomorrow


A new children’s program sets the stage for small change on a global scale. Language learning begins as early as the womb, making language a crucial tool for impactful...

 

Healing the Hidden Wounds


A trauma healing program saves lives in a fiercely persecuted community. Many communities around the world exist in historical hotbeds of unrest and conflict. Recent...

 

Communicating Bible Stories the Siberian Way


How local art supports culturally relevant Bible translation Every language is unique and can convey the truths about God and the Bible in a way that no other language...

 

A Fresh Start for Literacy


Fifty year-old literacy material is finding renewed purpose in the Mazatec speaking region of Mexico. In February 2022, Mexico’s National Institute of Indigenous...

 

Refugees—A Different Kind of Diaspora


I spent a year in a refugee camp after my family left Rwanda in 1994. So I know the pain and trouble people go through in refugee camps. Refugees in Africa make up a...

 

A Nation Small but Valued


One African community realizes their worth. One of the most uplifting moments in the Old Testament takes place when God makes a promise to Abraham to extend a blessing...

 

Understanding the Impact of Digital Language Support


In the era of the Internet and global communications, immeasurable amounts of digital information are being created, shared and consumed. From emails, SMS text messages...

 

A Modern Gutenberg Moment


Smartphone technology puts information access in the hands of more people. It is estimated that 70% of the world’s population now have access to a smartphone, making it...

 

SIL and Intel® Innovate Together


SIL collaborates with Intel® to expand language recognition technology for more users. Imagine navigating a bustling, new city for the first time. Now imagine tackling...

 

Why Does Language Even Matter?


Do you remember what it was like to take your seat on your very first day in school, bright eyed and bushy tailed—eager to please? Imagine, if you will, that once the...

 

‘Like Eating with the Wrong Hand!’


Early in 2022, a Scripture Engagement (SE) research team working in an Asian nation met with local pastors and leaders to try to make sense of the research team’s data...

 

Seizing the Decade


The International Decade of Indigenous Languages amplifies SIL’s mission to support language communities. The start to the International Decade of Indigenous Languages (...

 

Trauma Healing for Soldiers


When ethnic conflict in Ethiopia was increasing and the war in the northern regions began, SIL leaders met with the SIL Ethiopia Scripture Engagement team in November...

 

In Partnership with Project Video


Todd and Becky Bequette, the local SIL team members, help to facilitate the relationship between the B* Video Project team and the main Project Video office based in...

 

A Light that Would Not Fade


The Keliko of South Sudan boldly maintain faith and hope despite years of repeated conflict, displacement and trauma. The statistics of people living in diaspora...

 

Songs of Faith and Culture


Workshops in Indonesia equip participants to make scripture songwriting their own. On a visit to remote islands in the Maluku province in Indonesia, Latupeirissa was...

 

Working Toward Local Ownership in Tanzania


“When can we start? We’re ready!” The Nyika language community (about 25,000 speakers in Rukwa Region, western Tanzania) is eager to have Scripture in their own language...

 

Supporting Diaspora Communities


With more people on the move than ever before, diaspora populations present a major area of impact affecting the world’s peoples. Many embark on this journey with hope...

 

Language and Artificial Intelligence


Advancements in AI models shrink the digital language gap. Despite impressive strides forward technologically, only about 600 of the world's 7,151 languages* are...

 

Engaging Diaspora: Communities on the Move


Diaspora communities face particular opportunities and challenges in pursuing a better life. In 2020 the United Nations’ International Organization for Migration...

 

A Gift for Teachers and Students Alike


The group of preschool teachers sat quietly on the floor, eagerly listening to their trainer. All were speakers of the Lahi* language of West Asia. They had been...

 

Local Arts in Classrooms


“If it is true that a picture is worth a thousand words,” explains SIL Ethnoarts Consultant, Todd Saurman, “then the pictures . . . need to be related to [a community's...

 

Doing Things Digital


SIL’s Digital Strategy Guides help language resources find life online With the demand for digital content increasing daily, the ability to create and distribute...

 

A Change of Mindset


In February 2021, a friend in Jos, Nigeria, visited me. He told me about a new school he recently started to reach out to a Hausa speaking community. The community and...

 

Ready to Receive


Deaf Christians welcome the first full translation of the Bible in American Sign Language. After more than four decades of work, translators recently crossed the finish...

 

Beating Learning Poverty in Africa!


It’s well known that the COVID pandemic has had a detrimental impact on the lives of young children, students and youth around the world and has exacerbated inequalities...

 

The Power of the Local Language


The idea that God could speak to people in Mugalo* didn’t seem reasonable to a local church in Southeast Asia. Some people considered it too “coarse” and questioned...

 

Building a Better Storybook


Bloom helps create more accessible books for special needs readers. India-based organization, Chetana Charitable Trust , continues to provide parents in local...

 

An Early Start on Learning


Mother tongue preschools give children an educational head start. Children from the Kali* community in Eurasia often endure nearly insurmountable difficulties in school...

 

Child Labour - A Hopeless Case?


From collecting molluscs in mosquito-infested swamps to farming vegetables all day in the sweltering heat, child labour is still common in many parts of the world...

 

Literacy for a Better Life


Literacy skills empower women in Africa to thrive. Lack of basic literacy skills imposes major disadvantages on many women across Africa. The inability to read and write...

 

Dignity in Dirt


Faith and farming initiative restores positive self-image to Nigerian farmers. Dirty hands and long hours readily distinguish those who work the land cultivating crops...

 

Trauma Healing in Community


The Oral Story-based Trauma Healing training program came to Niger in 2018. Story-based trauma healing was originally designed as an oral program for communities, like...

 

Build a Book, Save a Life


Question: How Do You Write a Book When Lives are Literally on the Line? Answer: Very carefully. If you’re alive and have access to the internet (which I think we can...

 

Learning Leadership


A new generation of leaders and advocates emerge in rural Bangladesh As the world makes strides toward equal access, equality and social justice for all, traditionally...

 

Signing Hope, Seeing Change


Until recently, few Deaf children participated in Tanzanian church services. Inspired by this observation, BILAT—a Deaf NGO committed to Bible translation, promoting...

 

Closing the COVID-19 Information Gap


Deaf Organizations Unite to Provide Access to Vital Health Information Imagine living in this pandemic world without access to knowledge about the virus, like how to...

 

Healing and Hope for Refugees


Grace Simon, a refugee herself, has emerged as a leader in establishing a network of Trauma Healing* groups, even though she had only attended one Trauma Healing...

 

Powerful, Practical English Lessons


Experienced in documenting lesser-known languages of the world, SIL International is now producing language learning materials in something of a new language for us—...

 

COVID-19: Response and Reflections


As the COVID-19 pandemic spread indiscriminately around the world, many local communities experienced the effects of this unprecedented crisis to a disproportionate...

 

Perseverance and Partnership


When COVID-19 swept through Chad, a country of 15 million in the northern part of Central Africa, many local communities saw the urgent need to warn those around them...

 

Responding to a Global Pandemic


The global impact of a deadly virus requires creative thinking to respond effectively. Ingenuity is crucial because no single language or solution exists to inform those...

 

A Madagascan Movement


As told by Serge Razafinjatoniary The FJKM Zoara Fanantenana Ambohipo (FJKM Ambohipo Church) has a double advantage for ministry: it is in Madagascar’s capital city of...

 

Naskapi Model Project


(Photo above) More than 1,000 Naskapis now live in their community of Kawawachikamach in Quebec, surrounded by forests and swamy muskeg (peat bog). Before settling here...

 

Natqgu of Solomon Islands


Dr. Brenda Boerger, SIL Language and Culture Documentation Coordinator, led a team of five interns to Santa Cruz Island, in the Solomon Islands, for fieldwork in the...

 

Kamasau of East Sepik Province


The Kamasau language [kms] is spoken in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. About 900 people live in this lowlands language area, but many of the children under...

 

Dza of Nigeria


​ About 100,000 Jenjo people live along the north bank of the Benue river at the intersection of Taraba, Gombe and Adamawa States in northeast Nigeria, and speak the Dza...

 

Barayin in Chad


Over the next few months, SIL will present our ongoing language and culture documentation efforts in some of the world's lesser-known languages in conjunction with the...

 

Bungu is on the Map!


Bungu, a tonal language, now has a writing system ready for testing and literacy training. - Mbeya, Tanzania After years of research and testing, the Bungu team received...

 

Starving for Literacy


If someone holds a book written in his own language but doesn’t know how to read the words, it’s like a starving person holding a fishing net without knowing how to use...

 

Me'phaa stories on mobile devices


In Anabel’s Me’phaa-speaking town located high in the mountains of southern Mexico, there is no cell phone service. People use radios to communicate within the town...

 

Solomon Islands Language Survey


Tales of towering waves and howling winds worried the Language Survey Team. Should they postpone the trip? Had village leaders received the letters that were sent ahead...

 

Chanceline's story


Children passed by on their way to school but Chanceline was only able to watch them. She would have loved to go to school with them but that was not possible...

 

A New Alphabet and First Book


Around the village and in the fields, many children perched on logs or stones to read and to try to copy th e letters. It had been two years since an alphabet for the...

 

Surveying the Languages of Nepal


When Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, Hillary’s Sherpa guide, reached the summit of the world’s tallest mountain in 1953, the term sherpa soon became synonymous with “...

 

Opportunities for Koch Children


Leen Suma Adhikari has worked with SIL Bangladesh since April 2012 as a language and education officer. She facilitates teacher training and curriculum development...

 

Proud to Be Me'phaa


Leti, a young Me’phaa woman from Zoquitlán, Mexico, recently attended an SIL-sponsored writers' workshop. Leti is working and attending college in Chilpancingo, the...

 


Forging New Pathways


Graduate students find new ways to join community development efforts. The people of Papua New Guinea (PNG) use more languages across their Melanesian island nation than...

 

Connecting the Dots


Linking data between similar languages accelerates translation efforts in the Philippines. When members of the Ayta Mag-Antsi community heard the book of Ruth read aloud...

 

Harvesting Words


In a noteworthy initiative, the Kenga language community of Chad is set to release their very first dictionary later this year, marking a significant milestone in...

 

A Small Start


Indonesian children show their natural learning potential despite enormous challenges. For more than fifteen years, the doors to the public school in Kosarek village*...

 

Ethnologue Scholarship Program


New program supporting linguists from local language communities selects first scholarship recipient. Intuitively it seems clear that those best positioned to contribute...

 

Tanzanian Sign Language Textbook Project


BILAT is a Deaf organization in Tanzania. In the last several years they have taken a special interest in Deaf children by providing help for Deaf school children who...

 

Habits for a Healthy Life


School literacy program in a local Nepali language helps people of all ages make healthier choices. Bibek’s teachers once thought he was a naughty child—willful and...

 

Nyiha New Testament Project Brings Community Together


Richard Yalonde serves as Team Leader for the Mbeya Cluster Project of Tanzania. This project includes over a dozen language development and translations teams,...

 

Celebrating New Books for Children in Mali


Parents around the world want to see their children reading for pleasure, knowing it opens doors to education and opportunities. But millions of children have few to no...

 

Mobile Schools for Nomad Children Wins Top UNESCO Award


The Bakarwal Gujars are nomadic pastoralists living on the southern side of the Himalayas in Pakistan and India. Following migratory routes handed down through the...

 

Building Awareness Against Human Trafficking


Deaf teachers create sign language books to educate vulnerable communities about the dangers of exploitation. Deaf students in Latin America gathered for a book...

 

Stepping into Smaller Shoes


Linguistics students shift perspectives to support learning in early education. In Peru’s capital city of Lima, university students from across South and Central America...

 

From Isolation to Inspiration


A local team tied together by faith and family translates the Bible into Mexican Sign Language (LSM). Try as he might, Guillermo could not connect with his family. Born...

 

Over the Airwaves


Radio drama helps African communities address Ebola concerns. Local staff buzzed with excitement as the Minister of Health for the Democratic Republic of the Congo...

 

Education For Life


A Story of Innovation & Collaboration in Papua New Guinea Koen den Hartogh, an SIL language technology consultant working in Papua New Guinea, had a simple idea in...

 

Ethnologue Welcomes New Program Director


Caribbean born linguist and influential educator, Jill Paterson-Charles, begins role as Ethnologue program director. On the small Caribbean island of Grenada, a young...

 

The Language Journey


Philippines workshop offers communities decision-making tools in determining the future of their languages. In May 2023 SIL consultants facilitated a five-day language...

 

The Skill to Show and Tell


Media production training gives participants a powerful, creative platform to share their stories. Years of experience in training staff from radio, TV and language...

 

Language and Poverty


What is Poverty? The popular notion of poverty is that it is a deficit, a state of not having enough material goods nor the means to acquire them. Yet scholars of...

 

Emerging Voices in Media


SIL training in media production helps aspiring communicators develop valuable new skills. As advancements in digital media continue to accelerate, more widely creative...

 

SIL Ethiopia Celebrates 50 Years of Language Work


In March SIL Ethiopia celebrated its 50 years of accomplishments in partnership with both governmental and nongovernmental organizations. The Ethiopian Evangelical...

 

Language for a Healthy Tomorrow


Schoolchildren in Nepal are tackling social issues and creating change in their community. Early learning in the mother tongue helps young students reach a better...

 

Cameroon Book Creation Contest


In an effort to inspire more enthusiasm around writing and reading in local languages, SIL Cameroon hosted a book creation contest for the local public. In cooperation...

 

Words Unread


Literacy programs in Peru deepen access to Scripture. In 1988 a dream came true for members of the Cusco Quechua faith community—the Bible published in their very own...

 

Local Citizens Become SIL Interns


In the English and Portuguese-speaking areas of Africa where SIL works, a new internship program has begun. These interns are young, professional men and women from...

 

Language Changes Tomorrow


A new children’s program sets the stage for small change on a global scale. Language learning begins as early as the womb, making language a crucial tool for impactful...

 

Healing the Hidden Wounds


A trauma healing program saves lives in a fiercely persecuted community. Many communities around the world exist in historical hotbeds of unrest and conflict. Recent...

 

Communicating Bible Stories the Siberian Way


How local art supports culturally relevant Bible translation Every language is unique and can convey the truths about God and the Bible in a way that no other language...

 

A Fresh Start for Literacy


Fifty year-old literacy material is finding renewed purpose in the Mazatec speaking region of Mexico. In February 2022, Mexico’s National Institute of Indigenous...

 

Refugees—A Different Kind of Diaspora


I spent a year in a refugee camp after my family left Rwanda in 1994. So I know the pain and trouble people go through in refugee camps. Refugees in Africa make up a...

 

A Nation Small but Valued


One African community realizes their worth. One of the most uplifting moments in the Old Testament takes place when God makes a promise to Abraham to extend a blessing...

 

Understanding the Impact of Digital Language Support


In the era of the Internet and global communications, immeasurable amounts of digital information are being created, shared and consumed. From emails, SMS text messages...

 

A Modern Gutenberg Moment


Smartphone technology puts information access in the hands of more people. It is estimated that 70% of the world’s population now have access to a smartphone, making it...

 

SIL and Intel® Innovate Together


SIL collaborates with Intel® to expand language recognition technology for more users. Imagine navigating a bustling, new city for the first time. Now imagine tackling...

 

Why Does Language Even Matter?


Do you remember what it was like to take your seat on your very first day in school, bright eyed and bushy tailed—eager to please? Imagine, if you will, that once the...

 

‘Like Eating with the Wrong Hand!’


Early in 2022, a Scripture Engagement (SE) research team working in an Asian nation met with local pastors and leaders to try to make sense of the research team’s data...

 

Seizing the Decade


The International Decade of Indigenous Languages amplifies SIL’s mission to support language communities. The start to the International Decade of Indigenous Languages (...

 

Trauma Healing for Soldiers


When ethnic conflict in Ethiopia was increasing and the war in the northern regions began, SIL leaders met with the SIL Ethiopia Scripture Engagement team in November...

 

In Partnership with Project Video


Todd and Becky Bequette, the local SIL team members, help to facilitate the relationship between the B* Video Project team and the main Project Video office based in...

 

A Light that Would Not Fade


The Keliko of South Sudan boldly maintain faith and hope despite years of repeated conflict, displacement and trauma. The statistics of people living in diaspora...

 

Songs of Faith and Culture


Workshops in Indonesia equip participants to make scripture songwriting their own. On a visit to remote islands in the Maluku province in Indonesia, Latupeirissa was...

 

Working Toward Local Ownership in Tanzania


“When can we start? We’re ready!” The Nyika language community (about 25,000 speakers in Rukwa Region, western Tanzania) is eager to have Scripture in their own language...

 

Supporting Diaspora Communities


With more people on the move than ever before, diaspora populations present a major area of impact affecting the world’s peoples. Many embark on this journey with hope...

 

Language and Artificial Intelligence


Advancements in AI models shrink the digital language gap. Despite impressive strides forward technologically, only about 600 of the world's 7,151 languages* are...

 

Engaging Diaspora: Communities on the Move


Diaspora communities face particular opportunities and challenges in pursuing a better life. In 2020 the United Nations’ International Organization for Migration...

 

A Gift for Teachers and Students Alike


The group of preschool teachers sat quietly on the floor, eagerly listening to their trainer. All were speakers of the Lahi* language of West Asia. They had been...

 

Local Arts in Classrooms


“If it is true that a picture is worth a thousand words,” explains SIL Ethnoarts Consultant, Todd Saurman, “then the pictures . . . need to be related to [a community's...

 

Doing Things Digital


SIL’s Digital Strategy Guides help language resources find life online With the demand for digital content increasing daily, the ability to create and distribute...

 

A Change of Mindset


In February 2021, a friend in Jos, Nigeria, visited me. He told me about a new school he recently started to reach out to a Hausa speaking community. The community and...

 

Ready to Receive


Deaf Christians welcome the first full translation of the Bible in American Sign Language. After more than four decades of work, translators recently crossed the finish...

 

Beating Learning Poverty in Africa!


It’s well known that the COVID pandemic has had a detrimental impact on the lives of young children, students and youth around the world and has exacerbated inequalities...

 

The Power of the Local Language


The idea that God could speak to people in Mugalo* didn’t seem reasonable to a local church in Southeast Asia. Some people considered it too “coarse” and questioned...

 

Building a Better Storybook


Bloom helps create more accessible books for special needs readers. India-based organization, Chetana Charitable Trust , continues to provide parents in local...

 

An Early Start on Learning


Mother tongue preschools give children an educational head start. Children from the Kali* community in Eurasia often endure nearly insurmountable difficulties in school...

 

Child Labour - A Hopeless Case?


From collecting molluscs in mosquito-infested swamps to farming vegetables all day in the sweltering heat, child labour is still common in many parts of the world...

 

Literacy for a Better Life


Literacy skills empower women in Africa to thrive. Lack of basic literacy skills imposes major disadvantages on many women across Africa. The inability to read and write...

 

Dignity in Dirt


Faith and farming initiative restores positive self-image to Nigerian farmers. Dirty hands and long hours readily distinguish those who work the land cultivating crops...

 

Trauma Healing in Community


The Oral Story-based Trauma Healing training program came to Niger in 2018. Story-based trauma healing was originally designed as an oral program for communities, like...

 

Build a Book, Save a Life


Question: How Do You Write a Book When Lives are Literally on the Line? Answer: Very carefully. If you’re alive and have access to the internet (which I think we can...

 

Learning Leadership


A new generation of leaders and advocates emerge in rural Bangladesh As the world makes strides toward equal access, equality and social justice for all, traditionally...

 

Signing Hope, Seeing Change


Until recently, few Deaf children participated in Tanzanian church services. Inspired by this observation, BILAT—a Deaf NGO committed to Bible translation, promoting...

 

Closing the COVID-19 Information Gap


Deaf Organizations Unite to Provide Access to Vital Health Information Imagine living in this pandemic world without access to knowledge about the virus, like how to...

 

Healing and Hope for Refugees


Grace Simon, a refugee herself, has emerged as a leader in establishing a network of Trauma Healing* groups, even though she had only attended one Trauma Healing...

 

Powerful, Practical English Lessons


Experienced in documenting lesser-known languages of the world, SIL International is now producing language learning materials in something of a new language for us—...

 

COVID-19: Response and Reflections


As the COVID-19 pandemic spread indiscriminately around the world, many local communities experienced the effects of this unprecedented crisis to a disproportionate...

 

Perseverance and Partnership


When COVID-19 swept through Chad, a country of 15 million in the northern part of Central Africa, many local communities saw the urgent need to warn those around them...

 

Responding to a Global Pandemic


The global impact of a deadly virus requires creative thinking to respond effectively. Ingenuity is crucial because no single language or solution exists to inform those...

 

A Madagascan Movement


As told by Serge Razafinjatoniary The FJKM Zoara Fanantenana Ambohipo (FJKM Ambohipo Church) has a double advantage for ministry: it is in Madagascar’s capital city of...

 

Naskapi Model Project


(Photo above) More than 1,000 Naskapis now live in their community of Kawawachikamach in Quebec, surrounded by forests and swamy muskeg (peat bog). Before settling here...

 

Natqgu of Solomon Islands


Dr. Brenda Boerger, SIL Language and Culture Documentation Coordinator, led a team of five interns to Santa Cruz Island, in the Solomon Islands, for fieldwork in the...

 

Kamasau of East Sepik Province


The Kamasau language [kms] is spoken in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. About 900 people live in this lowlands language area, but many of the children under...

 

Dza of Nigeria


​ About 100,000 Jenjo people live along the north bank of the Benue river at the intersection of Taraba, Gombe and Adamawa States in northeast Nigeria, and speak the Dza...

 

Barayin in Chad


Over the next few months, SIL will present our ongoing language and culture documentation efforts in some of the world's lesser-known languages in conjunction with the...

 

Bungu is on the Map!


Bungu, a tonal language, now has a writing system ready for testing and literacy training. - Mbeya, Tanzania After years of research and testing, the Bungu team received...

 

Starving for Literacy


If someone holds a book written in his own language but doesn’t know how to read the words, it’s like a starving person holding a fishing net without knowing how to use...

 

Me'phaa stories on mobile devices


In Anabel’s Me’phaa-speaking town located high in the mountains of southern Mexico, there is no cell phone service. People use radios to communicate within the town...

 

Solomon Islands Language Survey


Tales of towering waves and howling winds worried the Language Survey Team. Should they postpone the trip? Had village leaders received the letters that were sent ahead...

 

Chanceline's story


Children passed by on their way to school but Chanceline was only able to watch them. She would have loved to go to school with them but that was not possible...

 

A New Alphabet and First Book


Around the village and in the fields, many children perched on logs or stones to read and to try to copy th e letters. It had been two years since an alphabet for the...

 

Surveying the Languages of Nepal


When Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, Hillary’s Sherpa guide, reached the summit of the world’s tallest mountain in 1953, the term sherpa soon became synonymous with “...

 

Opportunities for Koch Children


Leen Suma Adhikari has worked with SIL Bangladesh since April 2012 as a language and education officer. She facilitates teacher training and curriculum development...

 

Proud to Be Me'phaa


Leti, a young Me’phaa woman from Zoquitlán, Mexico, recently attended an SIL-sponsored writers' workshop. Leti is working and attending college in Chilpancingo, the...