SIL International
Partners in Language Development

By facilitating language-based development, SIL International serves the peoples of the world through research, translation, and literacy.

Reduce child mortality UN MDG #4: The child mortality rate is reduced when essential health information is presented to ethnolinguistic communities in their own language.

What's New Secondary palatalization in Isthmus Mixe: a phonetic and phonological account. SIL e-Books 11 Literacy and Educational Materials Primers for Ethnic Languages Primer Design Software Scenarios, discourse, and translation: the scenario theory of Cognitive Linguistics, its relevance for analysing New Testament Greek and modern Parkari texts, and its implications for translation theory. SIL e-Books 10 More What’s New

Role for anthropologists in worldwide HIV/AIDS crisis

Two SIL anthropologists are contributing to this year's annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, which is being held in San Francisco, California. "The continuing role for anthropologists in the worldwide HIV/AIDS crisis" is the title of the High Table Session chaired by David Beine. Tom Woodward is co-leading the AAA Workshop on the SIL FieldWorks Data Notebook software.