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!

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Fonts and writing systems to use your language anywhere!

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Document & Translate

Publish & Distribute

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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

Scripture Forge
10 February 2026

Improved guardrails for selecting training data

Improvements: Improved detection of books that can be used for training data so that empty books are no longer accidentally selected. The Translation Overview page now shows a clearer error message wh… read more

FieldWorks
3 February 2026

FieldWorks 9.3.6 Beta

Release Date: Feb 3, 2026 For more specifics about version 9.3 and the changes included in it, see the Beta Release notes.… read more

Scripture Forge
3 February 2026

Create questions from a specific category of Paratext notes

New Features: Questions for Community Checking can now be imported directly from Paratext notes. Use a Paratext tag to mark any notes you want to import as questions. Bug Fixes: Fixed an error that oc… read more