Font Development Tools
A comprehensive list of font development tools developed and used by SIL. These include a script for building composite glyphs in FontLab (FLGlyphBuilder), the command line version of TypeTuner, and other tools. Read More
Flashgrid
An add-on for the popular flashcard program Anki. It adds the ability to drill by selecting from a grid (similar to Rosetta Stone or Vocabulary Manager). Read More
Field Linguist’s Toolbox
A data management and analysis tool for field linguists. It is especially useful for maintaining lexical data, and for parsing and interlinearizing text, but it can be used to manage virtually any kind of data. Read More
Dekereke
Dekereke is a software aid to phonological analysis. It provides a system for maintaining and processing phonetic / phonological data, and functions for searching and analyzing such data to answer questions about the phonological patterns in a language. Read More
Cog
Helps you compare languages using lexicostatistics and comparative linguistics techniques. It can be used to automate much of the process of comparing word lists from different language varieties. Read More
Translators Workplace
A collection of Biblical resources chosen specially for Bible Translators by SIL, and offered through partnership as a library in Logos Bible Software. Read More
Paratext
Allows you to input, edit, check, and publish a translation of the Scriptures, based on the original texts (Greek, Hebrew), and modeled on versions in major languages. Read More
FLEx (FieldWorks Language Explorer)
Enables linguists to be highly productive when building a lexicon and interlinearizing texts. Powerful bulk editing tools can save hours of work. FLEx allows control of which fields and entries show up in a dictionary publication. Read More
Keyman
Keyman helps you type in over 2000 languages on just about any device — Windows, macOS, Linux, iPhone, iPad, Android tablets and phones, and even instantly in your web browser. Read More
FLExTrans
A rule-based machine translation system that is easy to use for ordinary linguists. It leverages FLEx (Fieldworks Language Explorer) and a powerful transfer rule language to give high-quality results. Your project may already have lexicons in FLEx so you have a head start!… Read More