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Abbreviations

Note: Some institutions may be listed under more than one name because of differences among our sources. Some names are incomplete, such as 'Episcopal' or 'Mennonite'.

ALEM	Associação Lingüística Evangélica Missionária
alt.	alternate name for
alt. dial.	alternate dialect name for
AMTB	Association of Brazilian Cross Cultural Missions
ANG	Anglican
ANU	Australian National University
ASL	American Sign Language
ASSR	Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic
BAP	Baptist
BIA	Bureau of Indian Affairs (USA)
BSI	Bible Society of India
BTA	Bible Translation Association
BTL	Bible Translation and Literacy
CAPRO	Calvary Ministries, Nigeria
CIIL	Central Institute of Indian Languages
Class	Language classification
CMA	Christian and Missionary Alliance
CR/CRC	Christian Reformed
CRC	Christian Revival Crusade
dial.	primary dialect name for
DRC	Democratic Republic of Congo
ECP	Evangelical Church of Papua New Guinea
EDCL	Encyclopedic Dictionary of Chinese Linguistics
EELC	Église Évangélique Lutherienne du Cameroun
FUNAI	National Indian Foundation, Brazil
GILLBT	Ghana Institute of Linguistics, Literacy, and Bible Translation
GR	Gospel Recordings
ICDBL	International Committee for the Defense of the Breton Language
IEM	Indian Evangelical Mission
IJAL	International Journal of American Linguistics
IMA	India Missions Association
LBT	Lutheran Bible Translators
Lg Dev	Language development
Lg Use	Language use
LGA	Local Government Area (Nigeria)
MARC	Missions Advanced Research and Communications Center
NTM	New Tribes Mission
NWFP	Northwest Frontier Province, Pakistan
OIEL	Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics
OMF	Overseas Missionary Fellowship
OVS	Object-Verb-Subject
PBT	Pioneer Bible Translators
pej.	pejorative
PNG	Papua New Guinea
RC	Roman Catholic Church
REF	Reformed
ROC	Republic of China
SIL	SIL International
SIM	SIM International
SOV	Subject-Object-Verb
TEAM	The Evangelical Alliance Mission
TILL	The Institute for Liberian Languages
TISLL	The Institute for Sierra Leonean Languages
UBS	United Bible Societies
UC	United Church
UFM	Unevangelized Fields Mission
UKAW	Artha Wacana Christian University (East Timor)
UN	United Nations
UNESCO	United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
USA	United States of America
USSR	Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
VOS	Verb-Object-Subject
WA	World Almanac
WCD	World Christian Database
WCE	World Christian Encyclopedia (Barrett 1982)
WT	World Team
YWAM	Youth With A Mission

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