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

PAWS
12 May 2026

Version 1.6.2 of PAWS is now available

This version allows macOS users to control automatic keyboard switching between fields, including Keyman keyboards.… read more

PrimerPrep
8 May 2026

New major release of PrimerPrep – version 4.00

This new version of PrimerPrep represents a significant step forward in exploring your data for primer design. This release introduces lexicon import, intelligent filtering of example words, and new s… read more

Scripture Forge
6 May 2026

Permissions-related navigation improvements

Improvements: Users can now navigate to and view drafted books even if those books are not yet part of their project. Copyright and licensing information for translations is now displayed in the draft… read more