SIL International: Partners in Language Development

SIL International
Partners in Language Development

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

Ethnologue—new edition for 2009

The most comprehensive reference volume of its kind, the Ethnologue catalogs the world's 6,909 known living languages, including endangered languages. It includes 208 pages of color maps, statistical summary tables and a bibliography.

What's New

SIL Forum for Language Fieldwork
- 2009-001 Klaas, Rudy and Agatha Van Ginkel. 2009. "Processes, outcomes, and issues: report and analysis of the preparatory meeting for Africa CONFINTEA VI."
- 2009-002 Black, Cheryl A. and H. Andrew Black. 2009. "PAWS: Parser and writer for syntax: drafting syntactic grammars in the third wave."
Two new Electronic Working Papers and four new Electronic Survey Reports now online
Easy Backup and Bdec, software to backup data to a USB stick

More What’s New

Ethnomusicology papers at world conference

Two SIL ethnomusicologists are presenting papers at a biennial world conference held in Durban, South Africa. The University of KwaZulu-Natal, Howard College Campus, is hosting the conference of the International Council of Traditional Music.