SIL Language Technology

Combine, The

The Combine is an easy-to-use Rapid Word Collection tool. It facilitates gathering words by semantic domain, along with translations, audio, and notes, to more fully capture form and meaning. Read More

DiagSap

DiagSap is a LingTree-like tool to create Philippine-style word diagrams (DiagSap is short for “diagramang sapin-sapin” which is Tagalog for “layered diagram.”)… Read More

XLingPaper

Produce linguistic documents with at least five outputs, all from the same source document: Web pages, PDF, Microsoft Word, Open Office Writer, and ePUB. It automatically numbers sections and examples and keeps track of section references, citation references, and glosses/abbreviations. Read More

Xetex

A typesetting system based on a merger of Donald Knuth’s TeX system with Unicode and modern font technologies. Read More

WeSay

Helps non-linguists build a dictionary in their own language. It has various ways to help native speakers to think of words in their language and enter some basic data about them (no codes needed, just forms to fill in). Read More

Webonary

Publish bilingual or multilingual dictionaries on the web with a minimum of technical help. Read More

Solid

Checks for inconsistencies in SFM lexical data. Useful when preparing data from Toolbox or WeSay to import into FLEx. Read More

SILKin

Helps field workers analyze and document the kinship system in a new language. It draws family tree charts for you, and helps you analyze terms by charting terms, suggesting possible discrepancies and which terms might be synonyms or umbrella terms. Read More