SIL

SIL International (Formerly: Summer Institute of Linguistics / Société International de Linguistique) is an international non-governmental agency active in language research and documentation in Africa and around the world. It is based in Dallas, Texas, U.S., and has offices in many African countries.

Website: http://www.sil.org/

SIL publishes Ethnologue (http://www.ethnologue.com), the oft-cited catalog of all the world's languages. Ethnologue is referenced in all the Major Languages and Countries profiles on this site.

SIL is also the RA for ISO-639-3 (codes for identifying languages).

SIL also offers Unicode fonts, some keyboard layouts, and information on aspects of multilingual computing:

• Fonts http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=SILFontList
• Keyboards http://scripts.sil.org/SILKeyboards
• Other information http://scripts.sil.org/TypeDesignResources

Other links

Wikipedia, "SIL International," http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIL_International

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