SIL Language Technology

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

Alpha Tiles

Create colorful and engaging literacy games for a new language in less than one week. These literacy games build spelling skills through increasingly difficult activities. Apps created with Alpha Tiles run on Android devices. Read More

Vocabulary Manager

An electronic flash card system with audio. Create a database of vocabulary items with an image and two audio recordings for each item – one for a ‘citation’ form, and one for the ‘in context’ form. As you build the database, you can practice the words, and test yourself on… Read More

Speech Analyzer

Does acoustic analysis of speech sounds. Generates graphs to analyze tone, frequency and duration, can add phonetic and phonemic transcriptions to the graphs and can graph the rhythm and melody of music. You can also isolate and replay sounds to aid in language learning. 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

LinguaLinks Library

LinguaLinks Library is a collection of digital resources designed to support fieldworkers, language learners, and researchers. Available through Logos Bible Software, this library is a valuable for anyone interested in studying and documenting languages and cultures from around the world. Read More

IPA Help

A web based tool for learning to recognize, transcribe, and produce the sounds of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). An earlier version of this is available as a download for Windows. 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