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SIL serves language communities worldwide, building their capacity for sustainable language development,
by means of research, translation, training and materials development.

Endangered language groups

All around the world, language groups and their cultures are becoming extinct. One of SIL's goals is to help preserve languages. Learn what can be done to preserve and develop these dying languages.

   

What's New

  • SIL Electronic Survey Reports for 2011 are now available for viewing.
  • SIL Electronic Working Papers for 2011 are now available for viewing.
  • SIL Electronic Book Review: 2011-003 Marcus Tomalin. 2006. Linguistics and the formal sciences: The origins of generative grammar.
    Reviewed by Iwo Iwanov
  • SIL Electronic Book Review: 2011-002 Kenneth Safir. 2004. The syntax of anaphora.
    Reviewed by Erwin R. Komen
  • SIL Electronic Book Review: 2011-001 Daniel Lefkowitz. 2004. Words and Stones: The Politics of Language and Identity in Israel.
    Reviewed by Elizabeth Parks

More What’s New

Training institute begins second session of linguistics courses in Colombia

Students and instructors recently returned for the second session of courses in an SIL-sponsored linguistics training program known as CLAVE, Curso de Lingüística Aplicada para Vernáculo-hablantes (Applied Linguistics Course for Speakers of Minority Languages), held this year in Colombia.