| ABWE |
Association of Baptists for World Evangelism |
| AC |
Autonomous Community |
| ACFLC |
Act Creating the Filipino Language Commission, No. 07104 |
| AER |
Administração Executiva Regional (Brazil) |
| alt. |
alternate name for |
| alt. dial. |
alternate dialect name for |
| AMTB |
Association of Brazilian Cross Cultural Missions |
| ANSNIC |
Asociación Nacional de Sordos de Nicaragua [National Association of the Deaf of Nicaragua] |
| ASL |
American Sign Language |
| ATR |
advanced tongue root |
| AUSTLANG |
Australian Indigenous Language Database |
| BCA |
Baptist Church Association (India) |
| BI |
Bibles International |
| BSI |
Bible Society of India |
| BTA |
Bible Translation Association (Papua New Guinea) |
| BTL |
Bible Translation and Literacy (Kenya) |
| CABTAL |
Cameroon Association for Bible Translation and Literacy |
| CAPRO |
Calvary Ministries (Nigeria) |
| CBS |
Centraal Bureau Voor de Statistiek (Netherlands) |
| CCV |
Consonant-Consonant-Vowel syllable |
| CHAVITA |
Tanzania Association for the Deaf |
| CIIL |
Central Institute of Indian Languages |
| CMA |
Christian and Missionary Alliance |
| COAC |
Center for Orang Asli Concerns (Malaysia) |
| CODENPE |
Consejo de Desarrollo de las Nacionalidad y Pueblos del Ecuador |
| CONADIS |
Consejo Nacional de Discapacidades [National Council of the Incapacitated] (Ecuador) |
| CPDP |
Chhintang-Puma Documentation Program (Nepal) |
| CTI |
Compañía de Teléfonos del Interior (Argentina) |
| CV |
Consonant-Vowel syllable |
| CVC |
Consonant-Vowel-Consonant syllable |
| DANE |
Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística [National Statistics Administrative Department] (Colombia) |
| dial. |
primary dialect name for |
| DNP |
Departamento Nacional de Planeación [National Department of Planning] (Colombia) |
| DNPI |
Diagnóstico Nacional de Pueblos Indígenas (Bolivia) |
| DOOR |
Deaf Opportunity Outreach (Kenya) |
| DVD |
Digital Video Disc |
| ECP |
Evangelical Church of Papua New Guinea |
| ECRML |
European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages |
| EECMY |
Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus [Lutheran Church of Ethiopia] |
| EELC |
Église Évangélique Lutherienne du Cameroun [Evangelical Lutheran Church of Cameroon] |
| ENAD |
Ethiopian National Association of the Deaf |
| FEL |
Foundation for Endangered Languages |
| FMPB |
Friends Missionary Prayer Band (India) |
| FOIRN |
Federação das Organizações Indígenas do Rio Negro (Brazil) |
| FPEVJ |
Frente de Proteção Etno-ambiental do Vale do Javari (Brazil) |
| FTT |
Finishing the Task (India) |
| FUNAI |
Fundação Nacional do Indio (Brazil) |
| FUNASA |
Fundação Nacional do Saude (Brazil) |
| GILLBT |
Ghana Institute of Linguistics, Literacy, and Bible Translation |
| GR |
Gospel Recordings |
| GXLOUS |
Guangxi Language and Orthography Use Situation (China) |
| IBT |
Indian Bible Translators |
| ICDBL |
International Committee for the Defense of the Breton Language |
| ICGM |
India Church Growth Mission |
| IEM |
Indian Evangelical Mission |
| IEPE |
Instituto de Pesquisa e Formação Indígena (Brazil) |
| IICCC |
India Institute for Cross Cultural Communication |
| ILN |
Instituto de Línguas Nacionais [National Institute of Languages] (Angola) |
| IMA |
India Missions Association |
| IMB |
International Mission Board (Southern Baptist) |
| INALI |
Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indigenas (Mexico) |
| INDEC |
Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Censos (Argentina) |
| INEGI |
Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (Mexico) |
| INF |
International Nepal Fellowship |
| IPA |
International Phonetic Alphabet |
| ISA |
Instituto Socioambientão [Socio-environmental Institute] (Brazil) |
| ISEAS |
Institute for Southeast Asian Studies (Viet Nam) |
| ISO |
International Organization for Standardization |
| JHEOA |
Jabatan Hal Ehwal Orang Asli [Indigenous Peoples Affairs Department] (Malaysia) |
| KANINDE |
Associação de Defensa Etnoambiental (Brazil) |
| L1 / L2 |
first language / second (or other additional) language |
| LBT |
Lutheran Bible Translators |
| LEDBL |
Linguistic and Ethnographic Documentation of the Baram Language (Nepal) |
| Lg Dev |
Language development |
| Lg Use |
Language use |
| LGA |
Local Government Area (Nigeria) |
| LLG |
Local Level Government area (Papua New Guinea) |
| LWC |
language of wider communication |
| MARC |
Missions Advanced Research and Communications Center |
| MSSS |
Ministere de la Santé et des Services Sociaux (Quebec) |
| NCIP |
National Commission for Indigenous Peoples (Philippines) |
| NELIMO |
Nucleus for the Study of Mozambican Languages (Mozambique) |
| NFDH |
Nepali Federation of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing |
| NFDIN |
National Foundation for the Development of Indigenous Nationalities (Nepal) |
| NILS |
National Indigenous Languages Survey (Australia) |
| NLCI |
New Life Computer Institute (India) |
| NMNML |
National Minorities and National Minority Languages (Sweden) |
| NP |
noun phrase |
| NT |
New Testament |
| NTM |
New Tribes Mission |
| NWFP |
Northwest Frontier Province (Pakistan) |
| OCEI |
Oficina Central de Estadística e Informática [Central Office of Statistics and Informatics] (Venezuela) |
| OMF |
Overseas Missionary Fellowship |
| OSV |
Object-Subject-Verb |
| OT |
Old Testament |
| OVS |
Object-Verb-Subject |
| PBT |
Pioneer Bible Translators |
| PCS |
Protestant Church in Sabah (Malaysia) |
| pej. |
pejorative |
| PIB |
Pueblos Indígenas de Bolivia [Indigenous Peoples of Bolivia] |
| RC |
Roman Catholic church |
| SIL |
SIL International |
| SNNPR |
Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region (Ethiopia) |
| SOV |
Subject-Object-Verb |
| SV |
Subject-Verb |
| SVO |
Subject-Verb-Object |
| TEAM |
The Evangelical Alliance Mission |
| TISLL |
The Institute for Sierra Leonean Languages |
| TV |
television |
| Type |
Typological information |
| UBS |
United Bible Societies |
| UKAW |
Artha Wacana Christian University (East Timor, Indonesia) |
| UN |
United Nations |
| UNAP |
Universidad Nacional de Asunción (Paraguay) |
| UNESCO |
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization |
| UNHCR |
United Nations High Commission on Refugees |
| UNSD |
United Nations Statistics Division |
| USCWM |
US Center for World Missions |
| USDS |
US Department of State |
| VAP |
Verb-Agent-Patient |
| VC |
Vowel-Consonant syllable |
| VDC |
Village Development Committee (Nepal) |
| VO |
Verb-Object |
| VOS |
Verb-Object-Subject |
| VP |
verb phrase |
| VPA |
Verb-Patient-Agent |
| VS |
Verb-Subject |
| VSO |
Verb -Subject-Object |
| VV |
Vowel-Vowel syllable |
| WFA |
Word for All (India) |
| WFW |
Word for the World |
| WT |
World Team |
| YWAM |
Youth With A Mission |
