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Empowering Communities Through Technology

We provide the technical foundation and linguistic expertise for every community to flourish in the digital age.

Language Equity

People flourish when they can communicate in their own language. We build the tools to make that possible.

Local Partnership

We equip communities with the technical tools they need to reach their own language development goals.

Global Infrastructure

We share expert data and open-source resources to help every language community reach its full, God-given potential.

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Software & Standards

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

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Recent Posts

Keyman 7 October 2026News

Keyman 19 is now in beta

We are happy to announce that Keyman 19 was released to beta on 6 Oct 2026. During this time, we will be working on stability and documentation, in preparation for a full 19.0 release early in 2027. T… read more

Bloom 7 October 2026News

What's new in Bloom 6.5 beta

If you’re running Bloom on the beta channel, you’re an essential part of the Bloom team. Your feedback helps ensure that when the beta becomes the official release, users without easy access to techni… read more

Scripture Forge 6 October 2026News

Translators can now configure the sources for generating drafts

Updates: Translators can now configure project sources, including uploading training sources. The fix also prevents a target project from syncing when an earlier sync failed or was canceled. Bug Fixes… read more