SIL Language Technology

Supporting language communities with literacy, development, and translation tools

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

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Recent Posts

14 April 2026

Performance improvements for community checking

Improvements: Community checking pages load more quickly for projects with lots of questions. The community checking question import confirmation page now displays the correct label when importing que… read more

10 April 2026

FieldWorks Version 9.3.8

Release Date: Apr 10, 2026 For more specifics about version 9.3 and the changes included in it, see the Beta Release notes. If all goes wwell, we bill be reclassifying this as a stable release soon.… read more

7 April 2026

Improved error handling and clearer error messages

Improvements: Better error messages are now shown when importing questions from spreadsheets that are missing required columns. Bug Fixes: The formatting options button no longer appears on the draft … read more