SIL Language Technology

Software for Language Development

Supporting language communities with literacy, development, and translation tools

Software and language services to help your community flourish!

Software & Services

Fonts and writing systems to use your language anywhere!

Writing & Fonts

Document & Translate

Publish & Distribute

Write & Communicate

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

XLingPaper
28 May 2026

Installers for macOS

This post has good news and bad news on installers for macOS. The good news is that configuration update installers from version 3.19.0 on are now signed and notarized so you can download and run them… read more

Scripture Forge
26 May 2026

Improved reliability when connecting to resources

Improvements:Improved reliability of Paratext resource syncing by ensuring project settings are correctly migrated and updated. Bug Fixes:Fixed an issue where duplicate resource names could cause inst… read more

XLingPaper
20 May 2026

Version 3.19.0 Released

XLingPaper version 3.19.0 (for the XMLmind XML Editor version 7.2+ or 8.2+) is now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Note: for Mac users upgrading to this version from versions before 3.7.5, plea… read more