SIL Language Technology

Software for Language Development

Supporting literacy, development and translation through language and writing system software.

Software & Fonts

SIL International develops and supports a wide range of language technology and software to assist with language development activities: linguistic and cultural research, literacy and mother-tongue education, dictionary development, community and computer-assisted translation, and vernacular media production.

One part of SIL Language Technology – the Writing Systems Technology team – is exclusively dedicated to meeting complex writing system needs so language communities can use their preferred writing system on computers, mobile devices and the web. The team does research, provides help and develops script-specific solutions, including fonts and keyboards.

Software and Fonts

SIL provides specialized software and fonts which support language development.

Check out our SIL software products and fonts.

Other software that may be useful can be found on the LingTranSoft site.

Document & Translate

Support language documentation, analysis, and dictionary creation FieldWorks (FLEx). Translate Scripture with Paratext and Scripture Forge. Manage recordings of language data with SayMore.

Publish & Distribute

Our software enables language learning and literature and app production. Produce books for early readers with Bloom and PrimerPro. Publish dictionaries with Webonary and Dictionary App Builder.

Write & Communicate

Support complex writing systems with award-winning fonts, specialized keyboards, and writing technologies such as Graphite. Document scripts and writing systems with ScriptSource.

Software & Standards

We rely on open tools and processes to develop and support over 50 linguistic and translation products, including:

Want to get involved? Check out our paid, supported, and volunteer positions.

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Recent Posts

Solid
12 July 2024

Solid 1.0 maintenance release

Solid is a Windows program that can be used to check, clean up, and convert standard format lexicon data. Solid 1.0 is a bug fix release based on updated SIL dependencies. It should be used instead of… read more

Annapurna SIL
11 June 2024

Annapurna SIL Release 2.100

Release 2.100 This release addresses an issue in Wambule texts that have implosives that were in use before characters for Sindhi implosives were encoded in Unicode. There also were TypeTuner correcti… read more

FieldWorks
11 June 2024

FieldWorks 9.2.0 Alpha

Release Date: June 11, 2024 You can see a list of the changes at alpha release notes… read more

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